Reps Committee Lauds Firm’s Safety Standards At Calabar Power Plant

The House of Representatives Committee connected Safety Standards and Regulations has commended the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) for upholding precocious information standards astatine the Calabar Power Plant successful Odukpani, Cross River State.

On Monday, the Committee gave the commendation aft an on-the-spot appraisal of the 565MW facility, noting important improvements since its past sojourn successful 2018.

The president of the Committee, Hon. David Idris Zacharias, said the inspection aimed to guarantee that Nigerians enactment successful harmless environments and bask long, steadfast lives.

He commended the unit for maintaining the works and stressed that the wellness and information of powerfulness assemblage workers were captious to the authorities and the economy.

“We, the Safety Standards and Regulations Committee members, ever admit it erstwhile we measurement into immoderate organisation and spot that they person done well. My content present is positive, and you besides heard the aforesaid from my honourable colleagues,” Zacharias said.

However, helium noted that the sojourn was intended to commend and item areas requiring improvement.

“When we travel to a spot similar this, we indispensable observe areas that request attention. We are saying this to promote them to deepen their committedness to information issues. We went circular and saw their challenges, which we volition instrumentality backmost to the government.

“We are hopeful that by the clip we return, immoderate of the issues we observed would person been addressed,” helium added.

Specifically, the committee called for betterment successful the enactment situation for staff, including amended lighting, remainder areas for displacement workers, and capable seating successful offices.

Other members of the committee were Hon Harrison Anozie Nwadike, Hon Suleiman Abubakar Gumi, Hon. Kalejaiye Paul Adeboye, Hon El-Rasheed Abdullahi and Hon. Emmanuel Effiong Udo.

The lawmakers, who were conducted astir the works by the Chief Operating Officer of the Calabar Power Plant, Engr. Ayoade Olanrewaju Bex, described the installation arsenic 1 of the champion they had visited successful presumption of information standards and compliance.

Welcoming the delegation connected behalf of the enforcement director, Generation, Engr. Abdullahi Kassim, the wide manager, Generation Projects astatine NDPHC, Engr. Valerie Agberagba, said information and standards stay apical priorities for the company.

She stressed that the company’s workforce is cardinal to its operations, adding that NDPHC would proceed to amended the enactment situation for staff, peculiarly those astatine its powerfulness plants.

“The House Committee connected Safety Standards and Regulations sojourn was precise important to us. It allowed america to measure wherever we are successful presumption of health, safety, and compliance with regulations and standards astatine our powerfulness plants.

“For me, it was an eye-opener. You could spot that erstwhile they compared the 2018 study to what they person now, determination has been a large betterment successful compliance. This shows that NDPHC is not taking safety, regulations, and biology standards for granted. We are moving towards a harmless situation for some our workers and the cognition of the powerfulness plant,” Agberagba said.

She stated that the institution has taken enactment of the areas that request improvement, adding that “this absorption is precise acrophobic astir the payment of the staff, due to the fact that if they are not successful a bully presumption to work, we are not going to get the champion retired of them.

“So those small observations person to bash with bully enactment conditions for the staff, we volition marque definite that these things are taken into information successful the shortest imaginable time.”

Also, the Ag. Head, Health, Safety and Environment, NDPHC, Austin Ijagem, disclosed that the works has not recorded immoderate work-related mishap that has led to a fatality since it began operations.

“The information astatine the powerfulness works has been top-notch. Their advisor mentioned that successful 2018, erstwhile they visited, they raised a batch of pending issues and information concerns. They besides acknowledged that the quality was wide erstwhile they came successful today. A batch of the information concerns raised successful 2018 person been closed out. That means we are getting nearer to astir zero pending issues regarding the information astatine the powerfulness plant”, helium stated.