The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA)’s managing director, Peter Ewesor, has ordered Nigerians living under high tension wires to vacate such areas, even as he directed the Ibadan DISCO to act urgently to avert the inherent danger associated with high voltage power installations, Leadership reports.
Ewesor, who was speaking in Ibadan recently, as part of a national monitoring tour of power installations in the country also urged electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) not to compromise on safety standards laid down for the installation of power equipment with a view to prevent electrical accidents. During the inspection, he also ordered the closure of electric poles manufacturing companies operating without a licence from the agency.
To this end, the NEMSA’s electrical inspector in charge of Oyo and Osun states, Tajudeen Alabi, stated that all electric pole manufacturing companies in the franchise would be inspected to ascertain their operational capabilities. He added that efforts would also be intensified to stop people under his area of supervision from building structures or carry out commercial activities under the high voltage wires.