By Victor Young
ABUJA—Workers in the nation’s power sector, under the aegis of National Union of Electricity Employees, yesterday threatened to shut down the power sector in the next 24 hour if the Ministry of Power and other employers in the sector failed to provide adequate precautionary measures to protect staff.
In a letter to the Power Minister, General Secretary of NUEE, Joe Ajaero, said the Minister would be held responsible for the transmission of COVID-19 to any staff in Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, especially its headquarters for his failure to comply with the Federal Government’s directive on people that travelled to countries with high cases of infection to self-isolate
The letter read in part “Our attention has been drawn to the return of the Minister of Power – Mr. Sule Mamah from his trip to Germany and Egypt while on the entourage of the Chief of Staff to the President. The Minister despite the President’s directive to self-isolate; reported at the office in the midst of agitation and complains from the staff at TCN Head Quarters, Abuja. If not for the intervention of the Union, there would have been pandemonium at the office, on Monday, March 23, 2020.
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“In view of recent developments, the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, wishes to state unequivocally that the Minister of Power – Sule Mamman will be held responsible for the transmission of COVID-19 to any staff in TCN especially its Headquarters for his failure to comply with the Federal Government’s directive on people that travelled to Countries with high cases of infection to self isolate.
“Besides, NUEE wishes to warn employers in the Power Sector especially those whose staff constantly have an interface with Customers/Public, that should they fail to, within twenty-four (24) hours take adequate precautionary measures to protect staff, we will be forced to pull out our members and will not be held responsible for any consequence arising there from. Employers of Labour in the Power Sector are hereby urged to take necessary measures to ensure the safety of staff in the Power Sector.”
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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/electricity-workers-threaten-to-shut-down-within-24-hrs-if/

Na now we go real hear weeeeennnn

Nice.. Precautionary measures should be put in place for these people.. If people are at home and electric workers must go to work.. Make their job easier please!!!

Useless country

From the look of things this wicked people want everyone to be infected since they are already infected.
We must all take necessary precaution on this.
Just imagine the situation of the Minister's personal driver and their families

Imagine the kind of people in government.... wicked country

Every union just dey threaten government unto wetin n.a.? they should praise health workers who have been taking risk to attend to patients all this while!

valentineuwakwe:
Every union just dey threaten government unto wetin n.a.? they should praise health workers who have been taking risk to attend to patients all this while!

my brother, hmmmmmm, health workers dey try o. If them sef start to threaten, electricity workers go fit stand?

It is indeed a very challenging period. Anyway, it is well.

Soon NNPC too will shut down

Lockdown, hunger, no electricity, nothing. We're in it big time

Abeg oooo, make dem no do oo, these guys are needed now.

We don't have Mech vents, we dont even have electricity to power the few 400 Mech vents,
Those who survived corona Induced Intubation usually stays for days, upto two weeks on artificial ventilators, of course with constant electricity.
how exactly do Nigeria plan to wriggle out of this?

If the government had closed the airport and borders this menace would had reduced.

They are humans too, they deserve to be safe.

The world is shedding its old skin and now we look forward to what it will be after the virus is gone. New shape taking place like a misappropriation of the earth's position from its axis.

All these shut down, you want to kill every one ba?