The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), on Monday accused the ministry of Power of planned misappropriation of over N109m from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) accounts to recruit about 500 engineers for PHCN through consultants.
NUEE in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Comrade Joe Ajaero, also alleged that there is an “unholy intent of the Power Ministry to waste tax payer’s money in the name of wanting to recruit Engineers for the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN”.
According to him, regrettable to state that the Power Ministry has concluded arrangements to draw N109m from PHCN accounts to recruit, adding this action is an aberration to standard practice as TCN, PHCN has full compliments of Human Resource Department (HR) in-charge of recruitments”.
Ajaero argued that the power ministry has no constitutional power to use PHCN money to fund projects, wondering in the same vein what has gone wrong with the power ministry’s vote for the year.
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