Goodluck Promise To Settle All Entitlements Of Disengaged PHCN Staffs

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, pleaded with the disengaged workers of the unbundled Power Holding Company of Nigeria not to embark on industrial action.

He gave the assurance that those who had yet to be paid their severance entitlements would soon be settled.

Jonathan spoke at the official commissioning of the National Integrated Power Project 500MW Omotosho Phase II Power Station in Omotosho, Ondo State.

“I will like to reassure all PHCN workers and our dear labour leaders that are yet to receive their full severance package that government is working hard to ensure that all of them get what is due to them. There is no need for industrial action,” the President said.

He described the event as  part of his administration’s efforts to provide adequate, reliable and sustainable electricity supply to Nigerians.

He said with the implementation of his administration’s power sector reform, things could only get better for the country and its citizens.

The President said his administration’s target was to boost power supply in the country by 4,700MW through the 10 NIPP projects.

Having commissioned two of the projects starting with that of Geregu, Kogi State, Jonathan said the commissioning of the remaining eight would be concluded before the end of first quarter of next year.

He added that at completion, all the 10 projects would be fully privatised.

“Our interest is on how we can stabilise light and we promise that before the middle of next year, light will be reasonably (I am not saying total) stabilised in this country. Any difficulty we still experience from fluctuation in supply should be understood to be temporary, not endemic again.”

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State said his government and the people of the state were elated to host such a gigantic project that would not only serve the people of the state but indeed all Nigerians.