paid as pensions and gratuities to workers of PHCN.
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of a meeting of
stakeholders in the power sector at the Presidential Villa, the
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Power, Godknows Igali, said
government would ensure that all PHCN workers, whose record had been
validated are duly paid their entitlements.
He further said the payment was coming ahead of the handover of the
assets of the PHCN by private investors tomorrow simultaneously across
the country.
He stressed that an additional 605 workers have also been validated on
Tuesday and their payment have just been paid.
However, NUEE said the directive became necessary following the
desperate move by the federal government to physically handover PHCN
facilities to investors without the resolution of labour issues.
The union also accused government of deploying armed military troops
to all PHCN installations stating that the aim is to ostensibly to
allow a forceful takeover of the installations without conclusively
settling the labour issues
In a statement signed by NUEE's Secretary, Joe Ajaero, claimed that
only 68 per cent of the gratuity payment had been made, noting that
"no member has received a dime of the pension funds savings into
his/her Retirement Savings Account (RSA) as agreed.
As long as the proposed strike that's supposed to begin tomorrow doesn't hold....
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