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From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
National Association of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has threatened to commence another round of industrial action few weeks after it resumed operations over failure by the Federal Government to address its demands.
According to a statement by the National Vice President of the union (East), Joe Oforka, NUEE said: “It is an undeniable truth that the power sector privatisation has not added value to the lives of ordinary Nigerians.
Oforka also regretted that almost nine years of power privatisation, entitlements of some of the workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have not been paid resulting in untold hardship and death to some of them.
Oforka said: “The precarious work conditions has imposed hardship on existing employees in the sector as the generation (GenCos) companies have refused to sign conditions of service guiding employer/employee relations, lack of workplace democracy, poor remuneration and others.”
He also expressed disappointment that electricity tariff has continued to rise without making prepaid meters available to Nigerians despite the Federal Government’s directive to the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
The South East/South South Secretary of the union, Emeka Ugboaja at a separate conference in Owerri urged the Federal Government to reverse the privatisation of the power sector.
