Four years after privatization of the Power sector, every passing day, Nigeria seems farther away from the promise of privatization, as not only has private monopoly replaced public monopoly of power general and distribution, it is arguable if power supply during pre-privatisation era was not better than post-privatisation.
This has prompted several groups and concerned to either call for total reversal of the privatization process, or its review.
Organised Labour in the Power sector which before the privatization, warned Nigerians against the consequences, has demanded for the review of the entire Power Sector privatization process done by the immediate past leaders of this country.
On the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, Labour, at its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Lagos, insisted that such X-ray would reveal the various hidden clauses directly responsible for the abysmal failure of the reform and the poor working conditions, poor electricity supply and the terrible welfare packages for workers in the Sector.
A communiqué issued at the end of the NEC meeting said among others, that NEC-in-Session decries the continuous and unexplainable involvement of Government in the financing/funding of projects and the day-to-day running of DISCOS, GENCOS while the welfare of the various staff has never been given any attention. The NEC-in-session condemns and resolves that such should be discouraged in its the entirety. The NEC-in-Session frowns seriously at the recent pronouncement by Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on the proposed tariff increase in electricity in the face of poor service delivery by most DISCOS.
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