Soludo inaugurates 5-member Anambra State Electricity Regulatory Commission

By Vincent Ujumadu

Awka — In a determination to heighten powerfulness proviso absorption and fortify regulatory oversight successful Anambra State, Governor Chukwuma Soludo has inaugurated a five-member Anambra State Electricity Regulatory Commission (ASERC).

The committee is chaired by Professor Frank Nwoye Okafor, who volition besides service arsenic the Chief Executive Commissioner. Other members see Engr. Geoffrey Okwuchukwu Nwokoye, Dr. Nnaemeka O. Ewelukwa, Engr. Nosike Emmanuel, and Barr. Chijioke Nnaemeka Obi.

The constitution of the committee followed the transition of a measure by the Anambra State House of Assembly, which provides the ineligible model for regulating the state’s energy marketplace and ensuring businesslike powerfulness delivery.

Governor Soludo charged the appointees to oversee the effectual regularisation and absorption of energy proviso to conscionable the increasing vigor needs of Anambra’s colonisation and economy.

He commended the House of Assembly for the timely transition of the enabling instrumentality and urged the committee to run wrong its ineligible mandate portion promoting transparency, accountability, and innovation successful the state’s powerfulness sector.

“This marks a important measurement toward Anambra’s modulation into a decentralized energy market. You person been cautiously chosen for your expertise and integrity. We expect you to present results that bespeak our corporate committedness to reliable and sustainable power,” the politician said.

The Commissioner for Power and Water Resources, Engr. Julius Chukwuemeka, noted that the 2023 Nigerian Electricity Act was being domesticated for implementation successful Anambra, adding that the authorities had been strategical successful laying the groundwork for the inaugural implicit the years.

In his remarks, the Commission Chairman, Professor Okafor, pledged that the squad would conscionable the expectations of the radical by ensuring improved powerfulness supply, vigor accountability, and gross assurance.

He assured that portion the tasks up were significant, they were achievable, expressing optimism that the authorities would flooded past challenges successful powerfulness delivery.

“We are committed to ensuring that some the quantity and prime of powerfulness proviso successful Anambra amended significantly,” Okafor stated.

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