OpeOluwani Akintayo
14 January 2018, Sweetcrude, Lagos — The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, has beaten ten other DisCos to top the 2017 Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency, NEMSA safety ranking list.
NEMSA is the governmental agency responsible for the safety of lives and property in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI.
According to NEMSA in its Disco & TCN Ranking Trend for the year 2017 released at the Monthly Power Sector Meeting held at Mararaba Akunza, Nasarawa State on Monday, January 8, 2018, EEDC had lept from the fifth position in 2016 to the first position.
“It is worthy of note that in the year under review, EEDC consistently maintained the first position in eight out of twelve months, this underscores the passion and conscious effort put in by Management of the company in ensuring that safety rules are strictly adhered to, and safe environment is consistently maintained”.
NEMSA said criteria used for the ranking ranged from, fatalities (that is the number of deaths within the network), major injuries as well as network resolved.