Kano Electricity Distribution Company loses N180m yearly to attacks

Kano Electricity Distribution Company has lamented that it is recording losses of about N180 million yearly due to the persistent attacks on its facilities by vandals within Kano metropolis.

KEDCO’s Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Khandi, made the disclosure, while conducting newsmen around some areas where KEDCO facilities, particularly transformers were vandalised in Hotoro, Sharada and Sabon Gari areas of the metropolis.

 However, the PRO, expressed worry that whenever the vandals strike and if there was an eventual supply of electricity, the transformer would promptly explode causing blackout.

Confirming that some of the vandals were nabbed, while perpetrating the act in the Sabon Gari area of the metropolis, Khandi however disclosed that they would be prosecuted immediately they complete investigation.

He however urged members of the public to protect KEDCO facilities as their personal property by ensuring close monitoring of the facilities.