No
fewer than 250 workers of the National Union of Electricity Employees,
staged a peaceful protest at the Jebba Power station on Monday.
The protesters carried placards, chanted war songs, matched within the power station and decried the alleged unfair treatment from the Federal Government against some of the disengaged workers of the union.
They also accused the government of reneging on the agreement it had with the electricity workers before the handover to the new investors in the power sector.
Some of the placards had the following inscriptions, ‘The death benefits of over 1,000 people who died in active service are yet to be paid to their families.’ ‘Federal Government should tell Nigerians the truth.’ ‘Over 50 per cent of the workers have been wrongly and illegally disengaged. Let FG tell Nigerians the truth.’ ‘All the collective agreements entered into by the union with the government in the power sector have all been violated.’ ‘Over 10,000 workers in the power sector have not been paid a dime as their severance entitlements.’
Chairman, NUEE, Shiroro/Kainji/Jebba (General and Transmission council) Niger State, Mr. Abiodun Balogun, and Chairman, National Union of Electricity Employees, General Service, Jebba Power Station, Mr. Tony Ofuowku, said the protesters had used other means of communication and strategies to express their grievances to the government and seek redress without achieving positive results.
They threatened that if their demands were not met, the electricity workers would embark on a nationwide strike.
The protesters carried placards, chanted war songs, matched within the power station and decried the alleged unfair treatment from the Federal Government against some of the disengaged workers of the union.
They also accused the government of reneging on the agreement it had with the electricity workers before the handover to the new investors in the power sector.
Some of the placards had the following inscriptions, ‘The death benefits of over 1,000 people who died in active service are yet to be paid to their families.’ ‘Federal Government should tell Nigerians the truth.’ ‘Over 50 per cent of the workers have been wrongly and illegally disengaged. Let FG tell Nigerians the truth.’ ‘All the collective agreements entered into by the union with the government in the power sector have all been violated.’ ‘Over 10,000 workers in the power sector have not been paid a dime as their severance entitlements.’
Chairman, NUEE, Shiroro/Kainji/Jebba (General and Transmission council) Niger State, Mr. Abiodun Balogun, and Chairman, National Union of Electricity Employees, General Service, Jebba Power Station, Mr. Tony Ofuowku, said the protesters had used other means of communication and strategies to express their grievances to the government and seek redress without achieving positive results.
They threatened that if their demands were not met, the electricity workers would embark on a nationwide strike.
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