The
National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) on Wednesday said that
Nigeria was not ripe for the privatisation of electricity sector.
The Secretary General of the union, Mr
Moses Amedu, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna.
He decried the over zealousness of the
investors in taking over the electricity companies, saying it would be
to the detriment of Nigerians.
Amedu appealed to the investors to
exercise some restraints, stressing that “it is the PHCN that has been
privatised and not the National Union of Electricity Employees”.
“We learnt that the electricity
investors were going about the companies to paste names of staff
disengaged and the names of staff who will be re-engaged.
“The NUEE is not privatised and we will
see to the adequate welfare of our members in the electricity
industries, whether being managed by private or the Government.
“We, the union expected to sit down with
the investors to enable us draw a condition of service and it is upon
this condition of service they should operate.
“But as things are, the investors are so
much in a hurry to throw away our members, even when they have not been
paid their severance package”.
Amedu said all the agreements signed by
the Federal Government and the union had not been made available to the
investors before disengaging his members.
The union scribe said 70 per cent might
have been paid their severance package, while only 30 per cent of the
electricity employees had received the Pension Fund Account (PFA) alert.
“The retirement saving account for the
47, 000 employees have not been funded, while some of our members are
yet to be cleared for any of these payments.
“The pension components of the payment have not been attended to,” he said.
Amedu said a total of seven thousand employees in the electricity sector were yet to be paid their severance package.
He said that 40, 000 out of the 47, 000 of its members across the nation had been paid.
The secretary general advised its members not to sign any letter of disengagement until they were fully paid.
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