15 YEARS AFTER RETIREMENT,EX-N.P.A WORKERS FIGHT ON OVER PAY
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
EX -WORKERS OF NIGERIAN PORTS HAVE BEEN PROTESTING OVER THEIR SEVERANCE PACKAGE FOR I5 YEARS IN ONE OF THE LONGEST KNOWN LABOUR STAND -OFF IN NIGERIA IN LIVING MEMORY
15 Years after their retirement from the services of the Nigerian
Ports Authority[N.P.A],ex-workers of the maritime agency under the platform of
Retired Aged Dockworkers Nigeria have declared that it was a case of “no-retreat
no –surrender” as they will keep fighting until they get what they believe was
rightly theirs.
They told Paedia Express Multimedia that at the moment about
2004 of their members who are still
alive have been fighting on end in the last 15 years but with little success
despite marshaling the efforts of fiery human right lawyer, Barrister Femi
Falana as an Attorney in there case.
Most of those seen in front of Nigeria Ports Authourity’s Corporate Head
office along Marina in Lagos on the 11th
of March when Paedia Express Multimedia visited noted that the NPA ‘s management
had been deceiving them over their pay
and as such they had since lost patient with them.
They lamented that despite a judicial victory in 2012,there was
no respite for them up till now .
Members of the Retired Aged Dockworkers Nigeria told Paedia Express
Multimedia that at least 380 of there active members were now dead after
waiting endlessly for their severance
package which never came.
The body of EX-NPA workers continue to demand for there pay
as at press time as shouts of “Ole” and “Barawo”,Nigerian interpretation of a
thieve in Yoruba and Hausa Languages rented the air while this reporter was
investigating.
Efforts made to speak to officials of the Public Affairs
Unit of N.P.A. did not succeed as members of the security unit of the agency
barred this reporter from making an entry saying he was not on any scheduled
appointment and not even a text message
from the same unit which the reporter received days before could convince them
as N.P.A continues to boil 15 years after it either sacked or retired some of
its workers nationwide.
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