The trade union congress (TUC) has disagree with the federal government of the planned privatization of NJPOST,TCN and the FMC nation wide.

The president of the union (TUC) Festus Osifoh disagree on the move by the federal government to privatize this entity even when the current administration is about to elapse.

The TUC president expressed dismay over the arbitrary takeover of the management of road transport operations from its affiliate, the Road Transport Owners Association (RETAN) by some state governments in the country.
TUC President warned that Nigerian workers were opposed to the plan to sell public assets establishments especially at the twilight of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

“In similar breath, we say no to the privatisation of the TCN because if you have privatised the generation companies (GenCos), Distribution Companies  (DisCos) and today they are performing at the sub-optimal level, what is the rational to tell the Nigerian people that you are going to also privatise the TCN? So for us it is also not acceptable.”

Osifoh alleged that the Federal Ministry of Finance was planning to release N8 billion to pull NIPOST assets down and strip them of their relevance completely.
He also alleged that a major part of the N8 billion was to be given to private companies that would manage the assets.

“We wonder why is it that when government manages a particular establishment, the first thing that it does is to strip it of its assets? Who are they going to give these assets to? We have been wondering.
“We say no to this. It is fundamentally not correct because NIPOST is a national asset. You can go to different parts of the world and see how the national postage services are being managed.”

“We even learnt that recently, the Ministry of Finance released the sum of N8 billion to completely pull these assets down and strip it of its relevance. And part of this money is been given to the companies that will manage those assets and only a paltry sum of about N600 million is being given to the NIPOST.
“Why should we be engaging in this, in the twilight of the life of this administration? We hereby call on government not to disburse that money, but to keep it intact and let the next administration come and we will have deliberations with them. If they go ahead with this plan, they will have Nigerian workers to contend with,”
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