Union Warns Members Against Sharp Practices

The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), has urged its members to avoid indulging in “sharp practices” in their  operations.

The union said that such acts negated the ethics of the profession.

The president of the union, Mr Mansur Musa, made the plea in Kano on Friday, at a meeting of the union’s officials in the northern states.

“I urge you to do your job with fear of God and not to engage in sharp practices. If you heed to this advice, God will help you in your career,” Musa said.

He urged electricity consumers nationwide to always settle their bills promptly, “because it is only when customers default in the payment of their bills that you find such improper arrangements.”

He said the union on its part, had always ensured that the welfare of its members was guaranteed, to avoid the temptation of committing unethical conducts.

The union president said that the union often discouraged such illegal acts, adding that anybody caught in the act would not be spared.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Kano State Electricity Distribution Company, Alhaji Mohammed Balogun, said the federal government had made arrangements to resuscitate the energy sector.

Represented by the company’s Principal Manager (Human Resources), Dr Fitzgerald Nwogu, Balogun urged the union to mobilise its members to discharge their statutory duties diligently.