Electricity pensioners protest in Kwara

Date: 2014-05-12

Scores of members of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Electricity Sector, Kwara State chapter, on  Monday protested against the alleged non-payment of their salaries and other entitlements.

The pensioners,  who protested at the  front gate of the office of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc, at Challenge area, Ilorin, chanted songs  calling on the Federal Government and the  Board of Nigeria Electricity Liability Management, GTE/LTD to address their plights.

They also carried placards with inscriptions such as: ‘NUP: Electricity sector, pay us our entitlements.’ ‘NUP: we think NEMCO will be better but now worst than before.’ ‘NUP: (Electricity sector) FG & NEMCO  please pay our monthly pension and gratuity and other benefits.’ ‘FG, let your agreement of 2012 prior to privatization of PHCN stand. We are old people. You too will be old.’ ‘FG be sympathetic and pay us our entitlement and other benefits,’ and NELMCO/FG, we are old people. Don’t let us die’.

The protesters however did not obstruct human and vehicular traffic within the company as they did not block the entrance to the IBEDC, Challenge  Unit office.

The Kwara State Chairman, NUP, Electricity Sector, Mr. John Abiodun, while addressing journalists in Ilorin, decried the hardship the alleged non-payment of their salaries and other entitlements had reportedly subjected to them.

According to him, many of the workers were sick. He added that they could no longer foot the bills for their basic needs and appealed to the government and the concerned authorities to ensure that their salaries and entitlements among other demands were paid and promptly too.

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