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48,000 ex-PHCN workers engage law firm to press home entitlements

by OGBENI .O
June 10, 2019
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Not Less than 48,000 disengaged staff of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have engaged the services of an Abuja law firm to press home their retirement benefits from the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE).

Hassan Gar, the National Chairman of the ex-PHCN workers, told journalists in Bauchi on Sunday that they engaged the services of Emmanuel Okere law firm to pursue their entitlements.

He said since their disengagement from PHCN across the country six years ago following the company’s privatisation, the over 48,000 staff were not paid their entitlements by the BPE.

“We have gone through stakeholders, National Assembly, traditional leaders, Federal Ministry of Finance to demand for our entitlements but could not yield any result, that is why we sought the services of a law firm in Abuja to pursue our entitlements.

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“So what we are doing is not verification but authorisation for the law firm to have the authority from the disengaged staff to collect their entitlements from BPE.

“The law firm said we must produce authorisation form and a sworn affidavit from court to give him the go-ahead to pursue the entitlements and that is what we are doing contrary to verification exercise,” he said.

Mr Gar said the N1,000 being contributed was for logistics and facilitation fees for the legal action being taken against the BPE, pointing out that the PHCN trade union and other relevant stakeholders had failed to fight for them.

The chairman said the forum was not conducting any verification but was collecting signatures of the affected former workers of the company to enable them authorise the law firm to fight for their rights.

He explained that since their sack, they never collected any benefit, including 7.5 per cent of federal government contribution of their pensions, arrears for personal/individual contributions for 16 months, 10 per cent equity share ‘as required by law’ and pre-retirement training allowances.

The leader of the disengaged workers appealed to the federal government to sympathise with them and address their plight by paying their entitlements.

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