SACKED WORKERS CANNOT BE RECALLED

Sacked Jos electricity workers cannot be recalled – MD

 

Workers of the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC), who were sacked recently, will not be re-engaged in spite of clamour by the workers’ union, JEDC Managing Director, Alhaji Gidado Modibbo, has declared.
“We did not engage in a mass sack of workers as is being alleged by the union; we only removed redundant personnel whose productivity has dropped.
“We operate the company as a private outfit that knows that it could only survive if it works with the best hands that will add value to the system,” Modibbo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Tuesday.
The managing director was reacting to the picketing of JEDC’s headquarters in Jos on Monday by the workers, who insisted that the 50 workers sacked by the company be recalled.
Monday’s picketing of the company was led by Mr Musa Ayiga, the North-East Vice President of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE).