The Port Harcourt
Electricity Distribution Company (PHED), has replaced over 5,000 weak and ageing cross arms in order to re-enforce her network and deliver quality power supply to its esteemed customers.
The Distribution company in a statement signed by the Acting head, Corporate Communications, John Onyi, said the replacement of the cross arms was carried out in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Cross River states.
Onyi in the statement expressed happiness over the speed at which the technical crew of the company replaced the old cross arms with fiber ones and noted that PHED would do everything possible to ensure that customers enjoy quality power supply.
He said that apart from network improvement, the company also placed premium on the safety of not only staff members but the public at large, hence the replacements.
According to him, “The company has spent millions of Naira to get the modern cross arms, and this is done to avoid any electrical accidents, either on the line or through wire cut, especially during the rainy season.
“The safety of everybody is important to us and as a responsive company, our emphasis is work and stay alive with your loved ones”, he said.
The Corporate image maker frowned at the activities of unknown persons, who go about cutting and vandalizing stay wires that are meant to hold electrical poles. This, he noted with dismay, had always exposed such poles to danger; and warned that such group of persons should desist from the ungodly acts, or face the wrath of law.
Recall that the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, has remained on the top of safety ranking in the country, as announced by the Nigerian Electricity Management Safety Agency, NEMSA, in July 2016, for the fourth time.

Tonye Nria-Dappa