Two people believed to
have specialised in stealing electrical fuse and other appliances have been apprehended by the special anti-crime outfit of the police popularly known as Operation Doo Akpoo.
The suspects were caught while trying to remove fuse from electrical transformers located in strategic areas of the state capital, Yenagoa.
Business Manager, Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution (PHED) Yenagoa Unit, Engr Madu Reginald Ubazuoke who disclosed this in Yenagoa during an interview with newsmen in his office did not make public the identities of the vandals and the locations they were caught even as he said the suspects would be charged to court and prosecuted accordingly.
Ubazuoke called on security operatives to arrest any Electricity Committee Chairman, or its agents tampering with its facilities as he appealed to them to stop disconnecting homes , carrying out repairs works and planting electricity poles in the state.
He noted that the Chairmen of the committees and their agents are not authorised and licensed to tamper with cables or transformers.
According to him, “ Chairmen of electricity committees do not have the legal rights to disconnect, plant poles and carry out repair works on poles, PHED do not give any committee chairman any power to do so”
The company, Ubazuoke said, is prepared and ready to give quality electricity supplies as at when due to consumers and appealed to them to pay their bills promptly, or be disconnected.
He equally said that PHED would soon embark on installation of meters in homes in order to regulate proper tariffs per unit.
PHED, the Business Manager said, is committed to serve and give quality power to the public, as the company is no longer a government owned company, but privately owned.”
“We are going to make sure that our aims and objectives in terms of quality electricity distribution and services are achieved”
Ubazuoke noted that the new power investors have competent manpower and managerial skills to deliver its agenda to Nigerians.
He outlined its major challenge as the overloading of its 33 KVA line, adding that PHED is partnering with state government to tackle the problem.
