Oil & Energy
NUP Insists On Apology Over Dead Members
The Rivers/Bayelsa chap
ter of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), Electricity sector, has insisted that he Federal Ministry of Finance and Board of the Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Company (NELMVO) should apologies to families of its late members who died while waiting to collect their arrears and pension.
President of the union, Mr Ufeme Tuka, presented this demand last week in Port Harcourt during protest of the body against non-payment of arrears and pension.
The union which said that over nine months arrears were being owed them urged President Goodluck Jonathan to use his good office to ensure immediate payment of their money.
The union drew the attention of the president to the hardship which their members are passing through due to the non-payment of their monthly pension since the beginning of the year.
Tuka, while addressing newsmen said the union was ready to initiate steps to ensure that the government aid the plight of the members in view of the difficulties and suffering they had been subjected to as a result of the non-payment of their entitlements.
Chris Olouh