PHCN Workers Protest Deployment Of Soldiers To Facilities

The Lagos/Ogun Chapter of National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) on Tuesday said that its members decided to go on strike to protest the deployment of soldiers to PHCN facilities.

Mr. Mbang Etukube, Chairman of the chapter, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in telephone interview in Lagos that the protest would continue until the directive was reversed.

Etukube said that the deployment of soldiers to PHCN facilities was another way of distracting the workers.

“This is another way of dealing with workers by engaging soldiers to take over PHCN facilities across the country.

“Government should reverse the directive so that we can go back to our lawful duties as PHCN workers,” he said.

Mr. Chris Akamnonu, Chief Executive Officer of Ikeja Electricity Distribution Zone, told NAN that the strike would affect PHCN operations in the zone.

Akamnonu said that official notices should have been given to the management in the zones before the workers embarked on the strike.

He said that the gates to PHCN offices in the zone were shut on Tuesday morning by the workers without any formal notice.