Management of Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc (AEDC) has acquired a state-of-the-art equipment worth over $316,000 (about N114m) whose function is to identify the location and depth of underground cables, including pinpointing faults in them.
Explaining the company’s decision to purchase the equipment, the managing director of the AEDC, Ernest Mupwaya, said, “This equipment will bring great relief to a lot of our customers in areas where we have underground cables, because it will help to speed up identification of location of faults, and thereby allow for quick resolution of such faults.”
The managing director explained in a statement on Sunday that the equipment was particularly useful to its customer base in Abuja because of its high incidence of the underground network.
Speaking further, Mupwaya said the ultimate goal of the AEDC in acquiring the equipment was to ensure improved service delivery to customers as the company moves near an era of enhanced customer satisfaction through its operations.
On the AEDC’s transformation journey, the Managing Director/CEO assured that his management team will continue to embrace more technological innovations that would fast track the company’s drive towards realising its vision of becoming a world class utility that will deliver power to its customers 24/7.
He disclosed that part of the package in the acquisition of the equipment was a short training in Germany for two of AEDC’s technical staff-engineers – Mohammed Ainoko Sule and Yetunde Odeniyi – so that the two of them could train other personnel in operating the fault locator.
In his short remark after he cut the tape to commission the equipment, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of AEDC, Shehu Malami, commended the company’s management for what he described as its “remarkable efforts” towards improving service delivery to customers. He used the opportunity to reiterate the Board’s support to the ongoing transformation programme of the company.
