A non-governmental group, the Campaign for
Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) has urged the labour union to stop
casualization and contract staffing but fight for decent work on a living
wages.
The group said, “the privatization of the Power
Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) by the Federal Government is never a solution
to the crisis in the power sector, but is an act of insensitivity by the
Federal Government to the interests of the poor workers who have been casualzed
since the handover of the company to private hand.
The Public Secretary of the CDWR, Chinedu Bosah,
lamented recently during a rally in Lagos said the only solution to electricity
is to keep PHCN a public sector concern and subjecting it to transparent and
democratic management by workers and elected community
According to him Increment in tariffs and outright
deregulation are part of the consequences of move towards the privatization of
PHCN. The argument of the government is that price increment and total
deregulation of electricity tariff would attract the “foreign investors”.
He said the construction workers are also facing a
scenario, “in the construction sector the mass of workers to subjectcontract
staffing and casualization and Nigerian companies now implement the
anti-workers practices. Safety and health condition by the construction
companies are not observed.”
By Adeniyi Idowu Adunola
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