By Adaobi Rhema Oguejiofor
The Management of Jos Electricity Distribution (JED) has contracted the Northern Cables Processing and Manufacturing Company (NOCACO), an indigenous cable manufacturing company, to produce cables that will be used on its network in order to ensure qualitative electricity supply to customers within its franchise areas.
The business agreement was sealed at the Disco’s corporate headquarters when the Management of the cable manufacturing company visited.
The Managing Director (MD) of JED, Engr. Abdu Bello Mohammed, while speaking during the visitation, said that he and his Management team decided to engage NOCACO, which is based in Kaduna State, to prevent cases of low-quality cables prevalent in the market.
Engr. Mohammed disclosed that NOCACO would produce customized cables with “JEDC” inscribed on them with the company’s unique colours for security purposes. He added that as soon as the Jos Electricity Distribution took possession of the customized cables, no customer would be allowed to use any other type of cable on its network or connect to their premises henceforth.
In his own words, “to avoid substandard cables, specifications will be given to the cable company which has a good reputation for producing quality cables in the country. We will showcase the cables to our customers making them understand that they will be the only acceptable standard required in our network.”
The Head of Corporate Communications of the Disco, Dr. Friday Adakole Elijah, in a statement, said that research conducted by the company revealed that in most cases low-quality supply of electricity to customer premises was occasioned by poor quality of cables.
On his own part, the Chairman of NOCACO, Jamilu Zakari Muhammad, who also flaunted works done by them for other Discos, promised to meet the specified standards on schedule.