By Sylvester Enoghase
Senior Correspondent
The Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) has declared that the negotiation between the Federal Government and the workers of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) on December 12, 2012 was carried out in good faith
SSAEAC’s President, comrade Bede Opara made the declaration at the association head office in Lagos on Sunday while interacting with newsmen on how some enemies of PHCN are trying to denigrate the workers and incite the public against the workers in their legitimate pursuit of getting their terminal benefits from PHCN.
He said, “The negotiation between the FG and the workers of PHCN on December 12, 2012 was carried out in good faith having considered the interests of the nation and those of our members in this matter”.
Opara, who warned that those involved in quoting figures without investigation to get the right information before going to the general public said, “We warn those involved in quoting estimated figures to get the right information before going to the public because up till this moment the total benefits of PHCN workers to be disengaged due to Government Privatization Programme are yet to be determined by Committees set up by the government to do so”.
“Even the figure of N144billion mentioned as total workers benefits during the former Minister Prof. Barth Nnaji, represented what government flouted to the Unions during negotiations was never a figure borne out of agreement of the parties involved”, he added.
Arguing that different types of figures had been brandished by government, since then which was severally disputed, he said, “This prompted the inauguration of Technical Committee by Government to work out details of the benefits of PHCN”.
“We need to mention that Professor Adeola Adenikinju of University of Ibadan (UI) which was said to have doubted the quality of negotiations that emerged from Government-Labour parley on PHCN labour issues pretended not to know that the labour-union negotiation under reference was headed by a well-known labour negotiator and sound Administrator, Comrade Hassan Sumonu, former President of NLC and immediate past General Secretary of OAU Trade Union Unity”, he claimed.
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