The Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC), has cautioned its customers, as well as the public, against putting up structures and carrying out business activities within power line Right-OF-Way (ROW).
In a statement on Tuesday, JEDC’s Head, Corporate Communications, Dr Elijah Adakole, said the company’s Managing Director (MD), Mr Abdu-Bello Mohammed, advised a safety awareness campaign at the company’s four franchise states (Bauchi, Gombe, Benue and Plateau).
Mohammed, who was represented by the company’s Head of Safety, Mr Alvinmax Cyprain -Yenkwo, said the advice was necessary as the distribution company had noticed with dismay the indiscriminate manner in which structures were being erected along the Power Line Right OF Way, without recourse to dangers associated with such act.
“We frown at the indiscriminate manner structures are erected within electricity Right OF Way, and warn our customers to desist from this hazardous behaviour.
“The Right of Way (RoW) is the distance of any structure from the middle conductors of overhead power lines of any voltage levels’’, he said.
He called on landlords, as well as contractors, to always ensure that the clearance levels are observed and maintained.
Mohammed listed these clearance levels to include: 11 meters for 11kv and 33kv lines (5.5 meters on both sides); 30 meters for 132kv line (15 meters on both sides); and 50 meters for 330kv line (25 meters on both sides).
Mohammed, therefore, said the adherence to powerline RoWs, as well as the clearance levels, would go a long way in safeguarding not only the lives of the citizens but also their properties.
