NSE inducts NEMSA MD, 425 others as fellows

From Isaac Anumihe,  Abuja

Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), has  inducted over 425 members  with the  Managing Director of  Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA),  Aliyu Tukur Tahir, receiving  a fellowship award.

Speaking with newsmen after the award, Tahir  described the conferment as an honour to him and fellow conferees.

He said the recognition was due to his hard work in   NEMSA from the inception of the agency.

“I was part of the team that laid  the foundation for NEMSA. My becoming the MD is also in recognition of  the hardwork  that was put in place. The good thing is that the foundation has been laid.  What remains now is buildin on the foundation.

“Immediately I became MD of NEMSA, I hit  the ground  running. I looked  at the situation when I came in and identified three issues  where  we have made successes. But what is needed is to continue with the successes. I have seen areas where we need some realignment to bring them back to the trajectory of success which we are working on.” he said.

According to him,  through the mandate of the agency, it  embarked on the enforcement of technical standards and regulations, inspections, testing and certification of all categories of electrical installations across the power value chain of generation,  transmission, utilisation and distribution.

“This is a wide mandate. So,  we need to open up our activities to cover the entire mandate of the agency.

“For example, the certification of electrical personnel scheme was once but I have expanded it to four schemes. The monitoring of the existing network was only done in monitoring spots but it has been re-engineered to ensure monitoring is done by feeders for the impact of monitoring can be easily felt and brought in limelight” Tukur, said.

He said that the activities of the agency during monitoring has led to the discovery of substandard electrical materials and equipment.

“We ensure they are removed from the system. So,  this has guaranteed improved power supply, capacity and reduction in number of interruptions on the feeders,” he further explained.