Lai Mohammed Lied Over Sabotage And Power Failure Claim -Electricity Workers.

The Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has come under attack over his recent statements as regards power failure in the country on a Channels Television programme on Monday 14th March where the Minister said the unions in the power sector were sabotaging power infrastructure, leading to outages in the country.

The electricity workers under the body National Union of Electricity Employees NUEE challenged Mohammed to a public debate on the problems in the power sector noting that the Minister should come out publicly and mention those he accused of sabotaging the effort of the government in the power sector

In his response to the statement made by the minister where he condemned the labour unions of the electricity companies for shutting down power supply in the country recently, the General Secretary of NUEE, Mr. Joe Ajaero, maintained that the real saboteurs of the power sector were those who refused to load allocation from the national grid for onward distribution to consumers.He said the Minister should reveal the names of the saboteurs who he accused of shutting down power in the country.

Ajaero further added, “Clearly, the minister has shown that he does not speak for the ordinary citizens of Nigeria who he ought to defend as a minister of Information of the Federal Republic, but has chosen to become a defender of the powers that have remorselessly ganged up against Nigerian workers and the masses he went on to say Alhaji Mohammed never saw anything wrong in the illegal sacking of about 400 workers of the electricity sector just by one Disco and the continued abuse and denigration of workers’ rights and privileges in these companies; of course, Lai was not expected to speak for common nobodies like Nigerian workers.

“We urge the minister to come out clean and stand for Nigerians, at least, for this once so that the evil that will manifest more and more in the sector if nothing is done quickly is nipped in the bud immediately.” Ajaero said.

According to him, workers will no longer be allowed to be maltreated upon “by unscrupulous businessmen, racketeers and their collaborators in government within the power sector.”