The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA) has disclosed plans to take legal action against electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) that fail to act on a directive it gave for the upgrade of old and weak installations in their franchise states.
NEMSA had given the 11 DisCos in the country a two-month enforcement notice to effect changes in their distribution networks which are not safe, blaming the electrocution incident in Calabar last year on it.
Speaking during an oversight by the Senate Committee on Power to the agency yesterday, the Managing Director and Chief Electrical Inspector of the Federation, Tukur Tahir Aliyu, said following the expiration of the notice, some DisCos have written to the agency on how they plan to replace old installations on networks while others are yet to respond.
“We have issued an enforcement directive to all the utility companies about some of the violations we noticed across the country. The timeline has elapsed and a number of them have responded to the directive and they have given us plans on how to go about rectifying those things.”
