Mohammed
To reposition the company for efficient service delivery, the Board of Directors of Jos Electricity Distribution PLC has appointed Abdu Bello Mohammed as the Managing Director of the electricity outfit.
This is made known in a statement signed by the Head, Corporate Communications, Jos DisCo, Friday Adakole Elijah, Ph.D, Mass Communication with specialisation in Public Relations and Advertising which was made available to Energy Frontier.
The new Managing Director who assumed duty yesterday (18th October 2022) at the corporate headquarters of the company with a retinue of personalities from Bauchi State urged staff to eschew conflict of interest in the course of their duties.
Mohammed who is an Engineer, specialising in Production Engineering disclosed that the system needs a total turnaround said, ” I am here to implement corporate transformation that is dearly needed in the company”.
He explained that his mandate was to ensure that there is a total transformation stressing that, “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 toil the part of work but if you don’t, you will have yourself to blame”, he said.
He asserted that 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?”.
Mohammed told members of the Executive Management of the company to brace up to change adding that for change management, “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. Please, don’t take it personally at all”.
Mohammed
The Chief Executive Officer was optimistic about repositioning the company for efficient service delivery in such a manner that would be profitable to all the stakeholders.
Consequently, Mohammed declared that his attention would be focused on reducing ATC & C losses via the instrumentality of performance tracking and evaluation, Customers tariff reclassification to reflect the reality of energy consumption by customers, Customers enumeration, Energy accounting and audit through aggressive metering and quality service delivery amongst others.
The Chief Executive Officer who was optimistic about the achievability of his programmes urged the staff of the company to redouble their efforts towards the optimization of their services.
Mohammed who no doubt a round peg in a round hole promised to prioritize staff welfare such as job security and a conducive working environment called on staff to eschew all sorts of vices, rumour-mongering and backbiting stressing that management under his watch would not tolerate indolence, non – performance, dereliction of duty as well as truancy from staff.
He, therefore, sued for cooperation and understanding of staff to enable the company to 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”.
Mohammed, a perfect engineer with a reservoir of knowledge of the energy sector is an experienced hand in the electricity industry and has spent most of his years in the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Electricity Management Services Company which has today been rechristened Nigerian Electricity Management Agency, NEMSA, Rural Electrification Agency, REA, Nigerian Electricity Power Authority, NEPA, and Power Holding Company of Nigeria.
He was also a lecturer in the department of Mechanical/production engineering at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, ATBU, Bauchi.
As a lecturer, he specifically conducted laboratory practicals for students, lectures on workshop practice, Mechanics of machinery, general studies and production technology amongst others. While in the University, Mohammed served as Assistant Secretary to the Mechanical/ Production department as well as Assistant Seminar/projects Coordinator.
An alumnus of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Mohammed holds a Master of Engineering in Production Engineering from the prestigious Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.
The Managing Director who had been decorated with various garlands and had attended several courses both in Nigeria and abroad.
The Chief Executive Officer who has assumed duty was optimistic about repositioning the company for efficient service delivery in such a manner that would be profitable to all the stakeholders.
Consequently, Mohammed declared that his attention would be focused on reducing ATC & C losses via the instrumentality of performance tracking and evaluation, Customers tariff reclassification to reflect the reality of energy consumption by customers, Customers enumeration, Energy accounting and audit through aggressive metering and quality service delivery amongst others.
The New MD in a round table discussion with Management staff
The Chief Executive Officer who was optimistic about the achievability of his programmes urged the staff of the company to redouble their efforts towards the optimization of their services.
Mohammed who no doubts a round peg in a round hole promised to prioritize staff welfare such as job security and a conducive working environment called on staff to eschew all sorts of vices, rumour-mongering and backbiting stressing that management under his watch would not tolerate indolence, non-performance, dereliction of duty as well as truancy from staff.
The New MD who is a team player, sued for cooperation and understanding of staff to enable the company to 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”.
