The Federal Government will commence the severance payment of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) exit workers next week, the Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises ( BPE), Benjamin Dikki, has said.
Dikki, spoke yesterday while receiving the Senate Committee on Privatization that visited the organisation as part of its oversight function.
His words : “Presently, agreement has been reached with the workers on all aspects of the payment of the terminal benefits. Actual payment is expected to commence by mid-July.”
The Minister of Power, Prof Chinedu Nebo, had promised President GoodluckJonthan that the Ministry would have completed the payment before the end of June, 2013. But the Federal Government seemed to have shifted the commencement of payment scheduled to begin on June 17, to mid July.
Dikki explained to the lawmakers that a Committee under the Chairmanship of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, was set-up to drive the implementation of the agreement signed between the Federal Government and Labour in December, 2012. He said a technical -sub-committee was set up to determine the correct number of bona-fide staff and obtain their bio-data.
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