The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, on Monday morning, shut down the Jos Electricity Distribution head office for non compliance to the laid down Labour guidelines.
National Vice
President, Comrade Musa Ayisa said the shut down of Jos Electricity
Distribution (JED) headquarters became necessary when the company refused
to work according to the Labour Law in the area of conditions of service.
“If the owners of this
company are not ready to comply with the NLC guidelines such as workers welfare
and hazard of the staff, we shall impose sanction on them.
The National Vice
President, disclosed in Jos, while addressing workers during a protest of
current low voltage and indiscriminate increase of electricity billing
system and poor remuneration of the staff .
Ayisa further
explained that, “the disparity of salary payment amongst workers of this
organization has become a great concern, hence the need for us to
intervene because of their plight.
The NLC leadership is
coplaining about the problem of poor distribution that has affected small
scale businesses and household consumption in the country.
Also speaking, the
Assistant National Secretary General, NUEE, Comrade Sule Anthony John,
said, the protest was to appeal to the federal government to reverse the
sale of PHCN to individuals who are exploiting citizens of Nigeria.
However, the
protesters were seen carrying placards with inscriptions: “Privatization
is evil reverse”, “NUEE say no to sack of workers without salary”,
“disparity of salary is evil”, “Workers have families, dependants”, “JED
are exploiting us”, among others.
The Jos Electricity
Distribution Company distributes power to Plateau,
Benue, Bauchi and
Gombe states.
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