By Ebitonye Akpodigha
The alarming rate at which hoodlums vandalise power installations belonging to the Kano Electricity Distribution Company Plc (KEDCO) is already giving the company sleepless nights.
Public Relations Officer of KEDCO, Mr Mohammed Kandi, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Kano.
He said properties of the company valued at N108.8 million have been destroyed by the hoodlums from August 2016 till date.
Mr Kandi lamented that the spate of vandalism, energy theft and meter bypass, which had recently risen extremely in KEDCO’s areas of operation, was becoming too difficult for the company to bear anymore.
He named the items vandalised as transformer oil, upriser cables, aluminium conductors among many others.
“The quantity of vandalised materials from August to date include: 46.5 drums of transformer oil, 2,130 aluminium conductors (150mm2), 4,500 aluminium conductors (100mm2), 535 and 15 (150mm2&70mm2),” KEDCO’s Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Engineer David Omoloye, was quoted to have said in the statement.
KEDCO noted that the development had caused the company huge losses and setbacks within a period of six weeks, calling on the customers, who bear the brunt to watch over the installations in their areas.
