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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