By Chinwendu Nnadozie/ Minna
The new Business Manager (BM), Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Minna, E O Paul, has cautioned staff to rise up to the challenges of their jobs by avoiding acts of laxity and other behaviours capable of dragging the image of the company to disrepute in the course of discharging their duties.
Paul spoke against the backdrop of allegations that some staff connive with unauthorised persons to sabotage the company in the distribution of electricity in parts of the state, including Dutsen Kura-Gwari area, which has for years been faced with supply challenges due to illegal connections and constant tampering with PHCN installations.
It was however gathered that electricity supply in some parts of Dutsen Kura-Gwari area has for years been under ‘load-shedding’, a development said to have caused by the attitude of some PHCN officials who connive with some retired workers of the agency to indiscriminately tamper with cables.
Apart from constant tampering with cables during power outage, load-shedding, illegal connections, including burying cables under-ground to extend electricity to houses distances away from main power source or transformers is very rife.
Other factors aiding the activities of those in the illegal business of the PHCN in some areas include total aberration from the master plan as the shanty nature of the area aids the perpetrators in perfecting illegal under-ground connections. This, the source said, is causing severe damage to the company’s installations
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