JOS DISCO Set For Effective Service Delivery – MD

The new managing director and chief executive officer of Jos Electricity Distribution Company, Engr. Abdu Bello Mohammed, has promised to reposition the Jos DISCO for efficient service delivery, saying the system needs total turn around to implement corporate transformation required in the outfit.

Mohammed who recently assumed duty while addressing journalists at the corporate headquarters of the company said his mandate was to ensure a total transformation, adding;  “That is exactly what I am going to do. Collectively, we shall drive the transformation agenda. I am for work, we can be friends if you tow the part of work but if you don’t, you will have yourself to blame.”

He said he would not tolerate a situation where staff would be masquerading as contractors, saying, “ So many of our staff are contractors. How can you be functioning as an operator and be a contractor in the same system?”.

Engr Mohammed warned staff  of the company to brace up to change, adding; “We have to inculcate and entrench it into the system. If you are changed today or moved, please, don’t think that you are not worthy. Maybe, there is a new space that needs to be developed that requires your expertise and experience.”

He added that faults identified within the network must be addressed assiduously, stressing that they have a rapid response team that is empowered to make sure that any fault emerging as a result of their operations must be attended to within a specified target given by the regulatory agency.

He said his attention would be focused on reducing ATC & C losses via the instrumentality of performance tracking and evaluation and customer tariff reclassification to reflect the realities of energy consumption by customers, customers enumeration, energy accounting and audit through aggressive metering and quality service delivery among others.

He, therefore, called for cooperation and understanding of the staff to enable the company meet statutory performance targets that would ultimately translate to profit-making adding, “Our doors are open to suggestions and any out-of-the-box initiative that will move the company forward”.