Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Tuesday, asked the management of the state owned radio station, Broadcasting Cooperation of Abia State(BCA) to ensure it imbibes maintainance culture in handing the newly installed 1.5MVA Injection Sub-Station procured by the state government.
Speaking while Commissioning the project at the BCA premises, Ikpeazu,expressed joy that what seemed a mirage 30 years ago has become a reality adding that his adminstration thought it necessary to provide the station with what it needed so as to complete favorably with other stations.
He maintained that power remains the life wire of an enterprise, and urged the management and staff of the cooperation to nurture and protect equipments at the Sub-Station.
In his words: “It is also within your purview to protect every piece of equipment that is in this place. Whatever we destroy will hunt us later.
“We don’t want to cut our nose to spite our face therefore, nurture this substation like your baby. If it develops a problem, please quickly find a way to repair and restore it because they say we don’t have a maintainance cuture but you must rewrite that story in BCA and in Abia state going forward”.
The governor thanked the BCA for their contributions in disseminating information especially at a time when the world is battling the COVID-19 virus.
He also commended them for supporting the state governments radio programme aimed at teaching the children and called on other radio stations across the state to emulate such services in terms of their cooperate social responsibility.
The Director General of BCA Sir Anyaso Anyaso in his speech,described the event as a land mark project that will bear eloquent testimony to the vision and commitment of Governor Ikpeazu to rewrite the history of the station.
While noting that power is essential to the survival of ventures such as theirs, especially at a time like this when States and national resources have been badly hit by coronavirus pandemic, Anyaso, said almost 30 years of its existence, the station has been running her activities with diesel powered by generating sets as well as inability to connect the station to the national grid and expressed gratitude to governor Ikpeazu for the feat achieved.
According to him, the station has since recovered lost hours during the day and extended broadcast time to 12 midnight daily disclosing that what the Governor has done is like a life insurance policy that would certainly herald the reemergence of a broadcast industry on the path to attaining its true potential.
