The Plateau House of Assembly has invited the management of Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC) to appear before it over the rampant cases of transformer vandalism in the state.
The resolution was made during Tuesday plenary presided over by the Speaker, Moses Sule.
The attention of the legislators was drawn through a motion of urgent public importance raised by the Majority Leader, Mr Ishaku Maren (PDP – Bokkos Constituency).
He said that over 83 transformers had been vandalised across the state, throwing some communities into darkness for about six months.
Maren described light as one of the fundamental basic social amenities that humanity cannot do without in the current generation.
“The activities of Jos Electricity Distribution Company are in serious jeopardy.
“Day in, day out their installations have been subject of vandalism, throwing people in the darkness and causing untold hardship.
“There seems to be a conspiracy theory that JEDC have a hand in the problem because their installations cannot be stolen by person or persons without the technical knowledge.
“Mr Speaker, we need to invite the management of JEDC to come to tell us why this going on in such a scale without any meaningful efforts to stop the trend.
“It is private business but they have taken adequate measures to protect their facilities,” he said.
After contributions from members, the speaker directed the clerk of the house to invite the management of the company to appear before the lawmakers to brief them.
Also during the plenary, Plateau State Citizens Mediation Bill and Other Related Matters 2023 passed the third reading.
The bill seeks to enhance mediation among citizens of the state to reduce dependence on traditional courts.
The Deputy Speaker, Gwottson Fom, who chaired the committee for public hearing on the bill, said that the mediators’ role would be to guide the parties towards their own resolution. (NAN)
