₦airaland Forum

The electricity workers under the aegis of the National Electricity Employees (NUEE) has issued two weeks ultimatum to the Minister of Power, Mr. Adelabu Adebayo, over the refusal to issue prepaid meters to Nigerians who were being compelled to pay what they termed as crazy bills imposed on them by the electricity distribution companies, while having less than 4,500mw output of electricity.

The threat was contained in a statement signed by the acting NUEE’s General Secretary, Dominic Igwebike.

Part of the unresolved issues also include refusal of most Generation Companies (GenCos), led by Egbin Power Plc, which allegedly had disobeyed all extant Labour laws since taking over in November 2013, and non-payment of 16 months arrears arising from severance, among others.

The statement from NUEE read in part: “In order to achieve impeccable improvements and rejuvenate the power sector, it is expedient that the federal government puts round pegs in round holes and not appointees whose qualifications are political considerations.”

NUEE also complained of lack of engagement with stakeholders in the sector.

According to the union, it was unfortunate that since his assumption of office, the minister had not deemed it necessary to reach out to critical stakeholders in the power sector towards engendering effective collaboration, optimising productivity and increasing power output and impeccable industrial relations atmosphere required to achieve them.

They added that, “Rather, he has embarked on a media frenzy to misinform Nigerians and openly threaten workers in the sector. It is on record that the power sector has not experienced any system collapse in over 400 days due to the industrious and hard-working members that make up the workforce.

“The Minister should be guided to the effect that the power sector did not experience any system collapse during the two days warning strike declared across the nation by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), which we are affiliated to.

“Should the Minister fail to address these issues within two weeks, he should preoccupy himself with recruiting NSA officials to run the Sector,” the statement added.

phayvoursky:
This is what you get when you appoint an accountant as the minister of power

Bliss62:
Adelabu would perform

RepoMan007:
corruption too is performance. How about that?

Ungalacomm:
Have gotten mine

Bliss62:
Adelabu would perform

While contesting for Oyo State Governorship election, he analysised with fact and figures how he intend to dam and put turbine generator in each River

nairalandkachy1:
https://www.arise.tv/nigerian-electricity-workers-give-minister-of-power-two-weeks-ultimatum-over-unresolved-issues/#:~:text=The

backT:
The rot in the Power Sector is something that cannot be undo in a single tenure. It will take Tinubu's commitment and will power to stamp on whosoever that is a hindrance to Nigerians having stable electricity, else we will continue to staggered around 3500MW or 4000MW at most.
The new Minister have the zeal to work but the saboteurs will also try to be a clog in the wheel of progress.
Let's wait and see how things unfold in the coming months.