Electricity workers tackle govt over alleged secret handover plot

 

 

Eluonye Konyegwuaehi

19 September 2013, Sweetcrude, Lagos - THERE are strong indications that the nation may be thrown into total darkness by workers in the Power sector over alleged Federal Government plot to secretly handover the assets of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to private investors without paying workers’ benefits.

The workers have threatened to shut down the industry should the government go ahead to handover the assets to private investors without full payment of employees’ terminal benefits as agreed in 2012 among other labour issues.

Already, the two unions in the industry; the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, and its Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, have alerted the public of the impending crisis and called on Nigerians to hold the government responsible for any industrial unrest that could throw the nation into total darkness.

 

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