Kingsley U.N. Chikwendu —
The Director-General of Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Alhaji Abbas Idriss, yesterday urged the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to develop an emergency response plan to ensure effective management of electricity disaster.
He stated this while on a courtesy visit to the management of AEDC.
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Idriss said that emergency response plan would enable the AEDC to improve its capacity in responding to disasters and safeguarding properties and infrastructures. He also expressed willingness of FEMA to get in more partnership with the AEDC to develop a response plan together.
“We urge you as a business entity to develop your emergency response plan to enable you response to emergency without really having difficulty with it, the FEMA boss said.
“And once you do that, you will be able to have each department that will handle various responsibilities and who will do what within a limited time to safeguard a lots of things including your infrastructure.
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”And it can be used in cases of electrocution we are phasing, that will also build your resilience in terms of anything to do with emergency”. We need to develop even our response plan together because the business aspect will be missing if we don’t develop a response plan as government agencies.
“We need to know what really are your challenges and then what area we come in order to boost your business and make sure that it is not hampered. You are providing electricity and this does not mean you are immune from fire incident, flood and other numerous hazards in the federal capital territory.
If we don’t really put our heads together, we will be at risk along the line and that will be a big problem for us and you”, Mr Idriss concluded.
