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NUEE Condemns Casualisation Policy
The National Union of
Electricity Employees (NUEE) has condemned the casualisation policy being practiced in the public and private sectors in Nigeria.
A statement by the union’s secretary-general, Comrade Joe Ajaero, last Wednesday said casualisation amounts to labour slavery in the formal and inrormal sectors.
Ajaero said Nigerian, workers have the right to be liberated from uncanny, treacherous and inhuman labour condition stressing that the Nigeria Labour Congress has the responsibility to champion the cause of liberating Nigerian workers from any form of inhuman conditions.
He said potential members abound in the formal and informal sectors to be organised into unionization, stressing that these workers are anxious and needed to be emancipated from labour slavery they were enmeshed in as casuals called for a more vigorous engagement by the organised labour leadership in anti-causalisation drive in order to ensure that every Nigerian worker enjoys regular appointment and begins to exhibit the much described dignity in labour.
Ajaero who will be contesting the NLC presidency in March, 12 rescheduled election also said that it is unacceptable that the NLC as a responsible labour organisation would not have annual budget to define her operations for the past years.
He said labour leaders most times often involved in the critique of government and employers for unguided expenses without them paying attention to their internal inadequacies of lack of peroper budget guides in their operations, stressing that labour leaders should therefore purge themselves of such anomalies and ensure proper accountability.
Philip Okparaji
Business
Kenyan Runners Dominate Berlin Marathons
Kenya made it a clean sweep at the Berlin Marathon with Sabastian Sawe winning the men’s race and Rosemary Wanjiru triumphing in the women’s.
Sawe finished in two hours, two minutes and 16 seconds to make it three wins in his first three marathons.
The 30-year-old, who was victorious at this year’s London Marathon, set a sizzling pace as he left the field behind and ran much of the race surrounded only by his pacesetters.
Japan’s Akasaki Akira came second after a powerful latter half of the race, finishing almost four minutes behind Sawe, while Ethiopia’s Chimdessa Debele followed in third.
“I did my best and I am happy for this performance,” said Sawe.
“I am so happy for this year. I felt well but you cannot change the weather. Next year will be better.”
Sawe had Kelvin Kiptum’s 2023 world record of 2:00:35 in his sights when he reached halfway in 1:00:12, but faded towards the end.
In the women’s race, Wanjiru sped away from the lead pack after 25 kilometers before finishing in 2:21:05.
Ethiopia’s Dera Dida followed three seconds behind Wanjiru, with Azmera Gebru, also of Ethiopia, coming third in 2:21:29.
Wanjiru’s time was 12 minutes slower than compatriot Ruth Chepng’etich’s world record of 2:09:56, which she set in Chicago in 2024.
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