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Nigeria: Protesting DSC Workers Bar BPE Staff, Visitors From Premises
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Leadership (Abuja)
16 May 2008
Posted to the web 16 May 2008
Moses John
Protesting workers from the Delta Steel Company (DSC) yesterday barricaded the entrance of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) proventing both staff and visitors who were eager to enter the agency premises.
The workers who were in their thousands also rejected the 5 years pension arrears offered them by the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) for what they described as unfair treatment by the BPE.
The national president of Iron and Steel Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ISSSAN), Comrade Titus Orimijupa earlier in a press conference gave BPE 30 days ultimatum to pay the 70% balance from yesterday, as the workers will be left with no option than to embark on an indefinite industrial action.
According to Comrade Titus "In June, 2007, more than two years after privatization, BPE decided to pay the sum of N2.86 billion being part of the proceeds from the sales of DSC, to further settle part of the severance entitlement of ex-staff. To date BPE has not paid the balance of severance pay-off. To the amount of N6,648,011,000.00 BPE's deliberate and orchestrated delay in the payment of the severance entitlement has precipitated and engendered mounting discontent, tension, incessant deaths and other social problems as hunger, deprivation, inability to finance children's education and other needs leading to children dropping out of school."
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The union leader added that securing of the public assets by the BPE is shameful and ridiculous as the real value of the assets as reported by a panel appointed by government to investigate the affairs of Ajaokuta Steel Company revealed that the core investor used DSC assets as collateral to borrow from Nigerian banks over 192 million dollars.
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