The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Authority, NEMSA has declared its intention to outlaw the use of wooden electricity poles in the first quarter of 2016.
The Managing Director of the agency, Mr Peter Ewesor made the declaration in Abuja on Thursday while briefing newsmen.
He said that the measure was necessitated by the absence manufacturers of high quality wooden electricity poles in Nigeria adding that the use of substandard materials would no longer be allowed in the industry.
His words:
“Today in Nigeria there’s no factory producing good, well treated wooden poles. We are going to outlaw the use of wooden poles this 2016. It will be one of the first things we are going to do because bad wooden poles have caused a lot of accidents in the power sector.
“We are going to make sure we outlaw that and before the end of first quarter we will publish that appropriately in the media. And we are going to send instructions to all Discos directing the outlaw of wooden poles in their networks.
A wooden electricity pole in Kuje, Abuja only held in place by the electricity cables supplying power to homes.
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