The Federal Government, he stated, had committed to enhancing safety standards and regulations in the electricity sector by ascertaining laws and regulations and establishing institutions to coordinate, implement, and enforce the laws.
This, according to him, is with the overall aim of ensuring that electricity service delivery in the country is carried out in a safe, secure and qualitative manner, devoid of loss of lives and properties.
“Moreso, to relieve the occurrences of incidences such as electrical accidents, electrocution, distortion of the functionality of electricity networks and grids, theft and vandalism,” he stressed.
However, Gumi worried that despite the efforts of the government in creating laws, setting up regulatory policies, establishing institutions of state and providing guidelines, codes and rules by which operators in the sector should abide, problems still exist.
“These include vandalism, theft, and installation of electricity by non-licensed electrical installers, production, marketing and use of sub-standard electrical materials and so on.
