The leadership of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, Dockworkers Branch has advised the disengaged dockworkers in the country to invest their recently paid severance package in small scale venture for the upkeep of their families.
Deputy Secretary-General Organising, MWUN, Comrade Abudu Eroje disclosed this during the payment of severance package to 309 dockworkers from Rivers Port Complex in Port Harcourt.
Comrade Eroje said investing the money in the small scale business would help the dockworkers take care of their families.
He advised the aged disengaged dockworkers not to be reckless in their spending, but prudent in managing their money.
“We are here to carry out the payment for the disengaged tally clerks and on board security men in Rivers Port Complex”, he said.
According to him, each disengaged worker is expected to receive the sum of N400,000 from the federal government as severance package.
“Government is kind enough to pay this package, because dockworkers were employed by the stevedoring firms that provides services to the NPA and not the federal government,”, he said.
Eroje said over 2,100 disengaged tally clerks and on board security men across the six ports in the country were earmarked by the federal government to benefit from the payment.
He listed the six Ports as, Tin Can Island, Apapa, Delta, Rivers Port Complex, Onne and Calabar.
He noted that some of the disengaged dockworkers had worked for over 20 to 30 years as extra service men in the ports.

By: Chinedu Wosu