The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has threatened to shut down the power sector.
On Friday, the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) charged its functionaries to get ready to embark on serious industrial action should the Government fail to drop its intention to privatize the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
The union threatened to shut down the power sector following the alleged secret plan of the government to privatize the TCN, the arm of the power sector that wheels bulk supply of electricity from various generation stations to the distribution companies.
The union said it has duly informed the federal government not to expect another notification for industrial action in case it carries out the plan.
It further stressed that the privatization would amount to totally crippling the nation’s economy thereby destroying the country if the government tries to place the only negotiating power it has into the hands of privatized persons.
They made the threat during the just-concluded fifth Triennial Delegate Conference of the National Union of Electricity Employees, Lagos Genco & Transco Administrative Council, held at the National Control Centre (NCC) Osogbo, Osun State.
Assistant General Secretary NUEE Lagos, Comrade Anthony Agyake, said leadership of the union, having heard a series of rumors that the Government is planning to privatize TCN, issued a joint letter to the Presidency, revealing the implications of selling the only negotiating power the Government has and equally advised that such evil plan be discarded.
Agyake said the Union would not be comfortable seeing another destruction coming to the Power sector and kept quiet, emphasizing that Nigerians are still nursing the pains that emanated from the privatization of both generation and distribution companies, still the Government has not learned its lesson.
He lamented that Nigerians have not seen the positive impact of the ones privatized about nine years ago and if the government still makes a mistake of handling TCN into the hands of private individuals, the whole country will be in trouble because that has a security implication.
The union called attention of Nigerians to the damage and risk if the government sold TCN, adding that it is unfortunate that the learned fellows (Professors, Doctors and Lecturers) who would have helped the Government have been on strike for months.
According to him, “one of the paragraphs addressed to the Commander-in-Chief is that the Presidency should accept that letter as notice. Any day, any time we wake up and hear that TCN is privatized, government should not expect any other notice from anywhere because we will embark on industrial action. No 21 days notice. No two days notice. We will surely embark on industrial action”.
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