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Oracle coherence1/8/2024 ![]() They faulted the authorities for not resolving the promotion issues for three years and stressing that memos addressed to the HoS’ office had gone without even the courtesy of an acknowledgement. In the circular signed by its National Secretary, Mr Joe Ajaero, NUEE specifically ordered the electricity workers to mobilise immediately for serious picketing of the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s (TCN) headquarters and stations nationwide from that Tuesday over the directive by the TCN Board that all principal managers (PMs) in acting capacity going to the next position-assistant general managers (AGMs) must appear for a promotion interview.Ījaero had insisted that the directive was in contravention of the workers’ conditions of service and career progression paths, adding that “it was unilaterally done without the relevant stakeholders.” The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) had in a circular issued on Tuesday directed its members to embark on an indefinite strike following alleged anti-masses activities. ![]() No one could have anticipated that this would be happening at a time the Nigerian power was trying to make some improvement, having become notorious for poor performance even with reforms leading to the eventual privatisation of the generation and distribution segments about nine years ago.įrom about 4,800 megawatts (MW) of peak electricity generation recorded on Tuesday, the grid gradually collapsed to zero on Wednesday, due to the shut down of all electricity generation plants, transmission and distribution networks in the country as electricity workers made good their threat to embark on an industrial action to press home some somewhat trivial demands. Nigerian homes and business outlets were thrown into darkness on Wednesday and the better part of Thursday following the strike action embarked upon by electricity workers, which was led by their union leaders. It is inconceivable that over 200 million Nigerians had to be subjected to total darkness for just petty reasons advanced by so-called electricity workers. ![]() Peter Uzoho writes that last Wednesday’s decision of the leadership of the electricity workers union to plunge the nation into darkness, with the attendant losses by businesses and homes, in protest against an official directive to sit for promotion exams and other sundry issues, is blackmail taken too far
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