Power Sector Under Threat: LECAN President Exposes How Quack Contactors Hurt Nigeria's Economy

However, your business scope is extremely broad. It is not something that we simply look at. It is not something that we simply look at. because this man is giving you thirty thousand Someone is giving you 5,000. You thought it was doing you good. even when you look at these materials They might even challenge you by buying in bulk. Again, you know Remember that you cannot enter, see them. They might hide all of your vehicle inside the city. You see this explanation of Olugbemisola Yes. He has touched many areas. Many areas. Quality and standard. And standard. These builders. The estate builders The what do you call them? Uh, what do you call these estates? Funders and those who build these buildings? Architects. Yes. And the builders. How is Lekan getting along with them? Because Most of them. They are the ones employing those quacks. Most of They may not be aware of this, or they know and they are I just said it for now, that your contractor, your building contractor, Your client, your building contractor, will tell you, it's no problem. It has to do that and get a petition from somewhere. Collect the money from you, and do it with a packet. That is all the more reason why Lekan needs to educate those people. We have our monitoring team. We have our monitoring team. We have NEMSA. We have AEDC. We all work toward a single goal, and that goal is quality. So, we find that when our people are going for monitoring, That man who is walking through the pathway inside that compound, We examine our people as a means to counter the owner. The owner might be a general. The owner might be a police general or hold any of these top positions. When the white black, the black who is coming in, When they come out, they will condemn what is our work; they will do this. They will do this, they will collect money, they will do this. Without knowing that we are working for the client, not saving his life and working for him. The janitor will come to conduct a test. During the course of conducting a test, They check the quality of the cable you use. The quality of the materials you use, if they conform to the standard. And you must pay for the service. But does NEMSA have enough staff to check all? the buildings that are being constructed? And NEMSA, are you guys everywhere too? We are everywhere in Nigeria. But the problem we are encountering is that they used To collude our head with the client that we are coming to pursue them in order to store them from working with that, even without the client asking Why can't they provide more education you need? to attack it more this time around, not education You know, you just asked me a question. if NEMSA would be able to come back, see the job of You don't need to go to your site because you are the contractor. I've done that job for you if he's licensed and knows what to do, yes. because once the job comes to completion: the contractor is expected to write to name a few, inviting them to come and conduct their inspection and issue a certificate In case of a defect, they will note it. There, you must meet up; they will do the test. of the earth if the earth does not meet with the the value they will tell you to reach this value and call them back so that when you come, they will Complete everything and give you the certificates to energize and ADC is now to come and use it certification to judge themselves Because NASA has done this, our job is to satisfy all the re Mossi or some people to forget him certain fi ca ten y ip trained then certificate I o Bhavabhen Jor Scene Ora �੍বੋਰੋਰੋਰੋਰ্ਹੋਰੋਰੋਰੋਰੋਰ্ໍ໎�্໷্ੰੋ n You must go and get it. An NCC certificate is entirely different. You must go and gain practical knowledge. You must demonstrate your expertise in the industry. Because you know the license we are talking about, This certificate we are discussing is for four categories. You can obtain category D, C, B, or A for yourself. A category is the highest depending on your mark in both theory and the practical aspect of it. From it, you can obtain B based on your answer So let me take this opportunity to tell you the coverage of all categories A covers from line 33, in fact, everything. every single one, even the ones who do not have the ability to know, you should be able to ask you ask, and that license you have according ask yourself whether you need to ask questions when you are not clear, and you must stop to determine how well to proceed but if you are a charlatan, you will do everything to connect in any way in order to be able to achieve what you are but fully knowing whether someone is coming to ask you a question or catch you because of your license So you need to wait, ask a question, and continue. So category B ends at 11 kV reticulation. That is a transformer, but 11 kV. 11,000 V category D stop at C stop on LV reticulation you will do LV that is from transformer We distribute to houses, then from there you keep inside the house, that's why I started with such a category d does only but as well So most of the quacks exist in all these categories. Yes, that's incorrect now. We are in FCT. How does Lecan relate? with FCT because I know they They have maintenance and facility facilities. maintenance unit where they handle electrification in the Federal Capital Territory, how does a clerk related to them, everybody has their They have their own company, their own company. Yes, private companies; most of them have their own private companies most Some of them go through a long process to obtain these licenses. You know, There are people who are in LEMSA. then what they do is this, and all They are all together in Korea, You can say, I will give this to your license. and they forgot that when you are in public office, You don't need to operate it. It is when you complete your service and retire, that can be used to obtain your license. But let me tell you, if you go to AEDC, More than half of them hold this license. And once they reach a place, They will set up their company and send someone there. Well, they will show you their license. Even party stars working with AEDC hold this license. So, all you need to see as a client, as a beginner, is that license. Now, the question is this. This man owns this license. Does he know anything about electricity at all? The answer is no. You see, it's practically everywhere now that you go to some offices in AEDC. You know, AEDC is an electrical company. that does everything to provide electricity for us. Based on engineering knowledge, you understand, to cover the infrastructure. But do you know that if you go to AEDC's office now, Most of the people sitting in the engineering department, The office is lawyers, marketers. Therefore, the primary individual performing that task will be granted a minor rank. This is the problem we are experiencing. So now that you've met me as an engineer in an office like AEDC, and you are a marketer and you are now brought to the top and become my order, giving me orders, and you don't know the order you are giving before you become a director you should be able to know What are you directing? Yes, you don't just come. and become a director at the radio station when you're supposed to offer engineering work like we We are doing it, yes, we are doing radio now, yes, and You know you're doing your own television. our own television, if they call you for a job, you can only connect people who know about it, but now the man or woman who found herself as CBO the chief business officer in an engineering firm Where engineers are, there is progress. Now a problem arises Perhaps there is a fault in my piping. Something happened here Something happened here last week. A business manager Her staff went and accused someone of bypassing. I said it was a Polaris bypass. The business officer doesn't know what Polaris is. He said, "What does that word mean?" So you see now He cannot defend the offices. His only goal there is to make money. So they go and say bypass. They say they don't figure out the bypass now. Now we are asking Why is it that nobody investigated It's only the company that will investigate. Only the company will pass judgment. Only the company will impose penalties on you people. those are the licensed individuals who know what the The law in installation, they don't know you will not be brought. The question is, they don't know I don't know. If you come to that office today, something is up. Is it you who can count the engineers and the engineers? We are disabled, we are compromised, We are handcuffed, we are handicapped. It is when the fault occurs and I say, "Engineer, go and" But if it comes to doing that job within the system, They will simultaneously bring it to an end. Or forcing the engineers to become minor officers in the industry that they are supposed to regulate. So what I'm saying is, if the government does nothing To shake off this idea, I don't think we're going to get rid of it. I thank that young man who is empty, Chidioki, Chidioki. He is doing his best; he has moved from one place to another. Imagine a company that is corrupt, even you as an engineer, They'll triple you; you want to cover paper. You want to cover Nyanya, you want to cover this, You want to cover that, you want to do this, you want to do that. At the end of the day, you'll be tired—you're a human being. The people you're working with—they weren't supposed to. They're not supposed to, they don't even help you. You say the CTO is an engineer, he'll handle the ball. Give, pass messages to his people, do the right thing. You, you're an engineer, you know what you're supposed to do. To act at the right time is to give you the opportunity to serve. You go there, why don't you do your job? Someone who is your superior, that is a CBO, or any office that serves as a field supervisor You tell it to stop because he wants to learn from you, number one. and he wants to participate in Doing that job, he knows he doesn't know what. to do because I knew that uh if you are not an If you want to become an engineer, you must go back to school, yes. but an engineer can do everything A work engineer can do the work of a marketing engineer. Do the work of anyone anywhere you want him to be but in this case, it is the opposite—they will be subdued An engineer, imagine you are the head. I don't know anything about engineering, I'm just a little boy. Who has technical knowledge of engineering? Now you're coming to tell me or ask me questions about what has happened if you'd like, and I'll tell you The truth is, if I like, I won't tell you. In my mind I said, why not do the job you're paid for? Will you be collecting about five million naira in a month? and then collecting one hundred twenty thousand. Do you want to come? and teach you the job in the industry. Is it a good one Hing Tw It's a shame. No more Questions: What is the role of Aganleba? Two more questions: Aganleba One, the Aganleba Two. You're talking about decentralization. Yes, yes, yes. They are discussing the decentralization of the power sector. Now they talk about the state market, the state electricity market. States are establishing electricity regulation. Regulatory commissions are establishing electricity markets. Do they really engage your members? Do the operators in the states, Really, have they felt the need to involve your members in their work? The problem there is that they don't want our contribution. Do you know why I say that? Award the contract Okay, does the Bank of Singapore alone ate operate Eve fish all the people you see in engineering capacity as AO Yes, ministers What are you? They are on the these c on contracts to their own com p a using you now as a license DCO as contractors, they will even provide the executor You're on Opportunity to e $ xe cut the job hundred percent Because if they give you and you give them charge, they will not pay. They will tell you. They will. As a consultant, you observe that comes to check on me the factory the factory because, uh, there's money we pay Uncle can't come, while constructing lines Uncle, no, you know? We investigate why you are not There we be calling you. How much? Does your dad pay you? Do you know Uncle Wang? The apprentice will tell him. That contract was fifteen thousand, I pay twenty thousand. Can you be able? To do this work, it will say yes. Next time, even that consultancy the work we are doing to ensure that fifty meters Where is fifty meters? Where were forty-five meters supposed to be? Is there a place where we have sectional posts? is well observed, and so on and so forth Don't give it to you again. That's why you see. The upright pole, please come so that Because there are sectional areas, you count them properly. From here to here, this section. You. You. Race them steady, them to avoid shaking. They move on. The time. You're involving the people who don't even know why we're centralizing. We'll do it anyway. Because we have found the never-ending task of doing the job one day. I said, why did you use it? That's because of our monitoring. Why are you using this cable? He said, okay, he saw where they use it, on the other side. So you see, the fault lies everywhere until The government recognizes us. and gives us our role to play, 100%.