The announcement of the payment of N384bn severance package to Power Holding Company of Nigeria workers from June 17, 2013, has attracted armed robbers and kidnappers to employees of the power firm.
The President-General, Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, Mr. Bede Opara, told our correspondent on Wednesday that the hoodlums had started demanding their share of the money which the Federal Government had yet to pay the workers.
He said, “We don’t want to be advertising this issue of payment. The lives of our members are in danger. Even now that the money is yet to be paid, armed robbers and kidnappers have started harassing our people here and there.
“This is because they heard that payments will be made from June 17. When they go to some homes of PHCN workers, they tell them that government said it had paid since June 17, bring our own share.”
He urged the government to desist from making public the date for the payments .
Opara added, “We really want to see that the money has been paid and not necessarily making it public that it will be paid on a particular date. Since PHCN workers are warming up to have their entitlements, thieves are also warming up to come and rob them of it.
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