Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Power has made a passionate appeal to the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) to suspend its planned strike action scheduled Wednesday, 17th August 2022 and allow them two weeks to address their grievances.
A letter signed by Goddy Jedy-Agba, Minister of State for Power and addressed to the General Secretary of NUEE said, “The Ministry of Power takes cognisance of your complaints therein and is committed to offering solutions that will be acceptable to all parties concerned.
“May we appeal to your great Union to allow us two weeks from the date of this letter to address the issues and come up with proposals towards acceptable resolution of all issues.”
Ahead of the planned protest, Members of NUEE, on Tuesday morning, picketed at the headquarters of Transmission Company of Nigeria in Abuja.
A statement issued by the General Secretary of NUEE, Joe Ajaero said, “You are hereby enjoined to mobilise immediately for serious picketing of TCN Headquarters and Stations nationwide over the directive by the TCN Board that all PMs in acting capacity going to AGM must appear for a promotion interview,” the letter said.
“This directive is in contravention of our Conditions of Service and Career Progression Paths and was unilaterally done without the relevant Stakeholders.”
The group also complained about the failure of the authorities to pay the entitlement of former staff of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in December 2019.
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