Akwa Ibom Floats Electricity Commission, Agency

Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno has disclosed plans to acceptable up a State Electricity Regulatory Commission and Electrification Agency successful alignment with the deregulation and decentralisation of the powerfulness absorption by the national government.

Speaking astatine the closing ceremonial of the two-day energy acme successful Ikot Ekpene section authorities country of the state, Governor Eno said the Akwa Ibom State Electricity Regulation Commission (AKSERC) volition supply just tariffs, transparent licensing, and autarkic oversight.

Also, the politician said portion the Akwa Ibom State Electrification Agency (AISEA) would present energy entree to towns, villages, and underserved communities.

“The boards of the supra agencies volition beryllium constituted successful the adjacent 1 month. We are wide that portion our ambition is long-term, we indispensable acceptable the shot rolling instantly by establishing AKSERC and AISEA, staffed and trained to the champion imaginable standards.”

He called upon the radical of the authorities with requisite method qualifications and skills to use for employment done the ARISE Employment Portal.

“I can’t accent capable the information that this, is purely a nonrecreational duty and therefore, has nary governmental colouration. The recruitment workout volition beryllium done transparently and lone those who are technically qualified volition beryllium taken.

“We volition rehabilitate and instantly commercialise Ibom Power Company (IPC) rise superior and commence its urgent rehabilitation, portion besides taking steps to found the Akwa Ibom Electricity Distribution Company and upgrade the State organisation web that it operates.

“We volition motorboat the Akwa Ibom Electricity Market by licensing Ibom Power Company and the caller Akwa Ibom State Electricity Distribution Company, with Akwa Ibom holding bulk shares,” helium said

Eno assured that the State would rotation retired the archetypal signifier of the State Electrification Plan, “bringing sustainable energy entree to unserved and underserved communities; and people and enforce a Consumer Bill of Rights which volition guarantee just attraction for each consumers, accountability by licensees, and extortion of energy assets against vandalism and theft.”

He besides disclosed plans to aviator renewable vigor projects, ensuring that astatine slightest 20 percent of the aboriginal powerfulness would travel from cleanable sources.

“These are not distant promises—they are immediate, measurable, and achievable astatine assorted times wrong the adjacent 24 months oregon adjacent less,” helium assured.

Emphasising the request for collaboration, Governor Eno said, “We person listened. We person learned. And we volition act. But fto maine accent this: occurrence volition not travel from authorities alone. It volition travel from partnerships -with the backstage sector, with our national counterparts, with improvement concern institutions, with investors and licensees, and with you, the radical of Akwa Ibom.

“We volition enactment hard and purposefully to ensure, that energy availability volition nary longer beryllium a obstruction to maturation successful Akwa Ibom State, that industries volition flourish, businesses volition thrive, and homes volition beryllium powered.

“That we volition statesman to present amended work to much households and by 2034, God willing, each household successful Akwa Ibom volition person prime energy service. And that we volition physique a exemplary for energy betterment successful Nigeria,” helium stressed.