By Musa Adamu
Abuja
Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) has expressed optimism that better days lie ahead in the Nigerian Electricity Supply industry (NESI) after monitoring operational capability of Kaduna Electric (KE).
A team of BPE officials made the comment while on a post privatisation monitoring of KE distribution company yesterday.
The leader of the team, Ahmed Shitu, who spoke on behalf of four others, described what they saw and heard in the course of their assignment in the franchise areas of KE as “re-assuring.”
He commended the management of the electricity distribution company for remaining focused and committed to its pre-bidding commitments to the BPE.
Earlier in his welcome address, the managing director, KE, Engr. Garba Haruna, reaffirmed the commitment of the core-investor to the business plan submitted to the BPE during the pre-bidding processes.
He further disclosed that even though KE was the last company to be privatised among the eleven distribution companies, the company had been able to upgraded or installed and commissioned eleven injection sub-stations, with three others in advanced stage in the about one year of taken-over.
Engr. Garba also disclosed that the company had recently procured 40 Hilux operational vehicles and 1,500 motor cycles to further enhance its operations.
He said: “All these investments were made to ensure utmost efficiency in service delivery.”
He also called on the BPE address the current logjam in the issue of core and non-core assets handed over to the company.
The BPE officials, after scrutinising the books of the company, also visited the sites of some projects recently executed by the company, the new service centre in Sardauna Crescent in the central part of Kaduna metropolis as well as inspected the operational vehicles recently procured by the company.