Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Enugu Electricity Distribution company, begins recruitment of 2,000‎ workers

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The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) yesterday announced plans to recruit 2000 new staff.
It said the new recruits were expected to join the company by the end of the year as part of its restructuring.Head of Communications, Mr Emeka Eze, in a statement, noted that the figure would bring its staff strength to 4000.
Eze said that the company would first recruit 1000 technicians in the immediate future and increase the number to 2000 by the end of the year.
“The company is focused on flattening its structure by identifying and eliminating redundant levels and replacing them with more people at operation levels, thereby ensuring it has enough manpower to attend to the rising needs of its esteemed customers’’.
The official disclosed restructure included changes in its executive management as well as re-evaluation of its staffing policy to ensure efficiency in its processes and operations.
Eze said that the company recently completed a comprehensive organisational restructure to realign its strategies, direction and priorities to more readily achieve its target loss reduction, improve network reliability and customer service.
“Consequently, Mr Robert Dickerman has stepped down as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of EEDC effective Oct. 27, 2016.

“Mr Srinivas Jayaraman, who was until recently the Deputy Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed the Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the company,’’ he said.

In September, over 200 electricity consumers from Nluani-Ububa, Nkpor Community near Onitsha in Anambra protested against alleged extortion by officials of the EEDC.


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