• Discos, others to get heavy fines for disasters
GOING by new regulations being fine-tuned by the Nigerian Electricity
Regulatory Commission (NERC), cases of electrocutions and other related
accidents in the electricity industry would no longer be treated with
levity.
This is more so as the industry is transiting to a private sector
controlled one with anticipated increase in business activities.
However, data released by the Commission yesterday indicates that a total
number of 102 deaths and 72 injuries from electrocutions were recorded across
the country last year. Between January and July this year alone, 59 deaths from
electrocution were recorded while 60 injuries were reported within the same
period. A greater percentage of these electrocutions, the Commission said,
occurred in the distribution companies.
NERC Chairman, Sam Amadi, said at a consultation workshop on health and
safety code for the Nigerian electricity supply industry in Abuja yesterday that
the figure is extremely high and unacceptable.
To ensure that the electricity firms, especially under the post
privatisation era, step up the health and safety activities, a draft health and
safety code has been developed by NERC and other stakeholders in the
industry.
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