Lagos - The management
of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) have finally set up a date to commence payment
of severance packages for tally clerks and onboard ship
gangway security personnel disengaged in 2015.
Disclosing this in
a statement on Friday, the President General of the Maritime Workers Union of
Nigeria (MWUN), Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, confirmed that payment would commence
on Monday at the NPA sport ground, Bode Thomas in Surulere Lagos.
Adeyanju explained
that payment will commence in Lagos Area before proceeding to other parts of
the country where operations of the Dockers were affected.
He also commended
management of the Nigeria Ports Authority led by Hadiza Bala Usman , Nigeria
Labour Congress and that of transportation, for the support in ensuring
that the payment of the affected dockworkers are actualised.
According to the statement:
” We wish to inform the general public that at the long last, severance
packages will be paid to the tally clerks and onboard ship gangway security men
disengaged from service 2015.
“It would be
recalled that as a full out of the port reform exercises of those categories of
workers were found not necessary, hence they were disengaged from service 2015
and they have since remained unpaid of severance packages.
“Following their
several agitation and protest for payment and severance package which were
usually accompanied with tension in all the seaports, management of the Nigeria
Ports Authority NPA constituted a verification committee whose membership was
drawn from NPA, stevedoring companies and the Union to ascertain those who are
due for payment of severance packages.
“The committee
carried out it assignment in all the seaports between 17 to 28 December, 2018
and later submitted its report to NPA.
“However, when to
response was received, the disengaged workers kept their agitation and protest
aglow with the attendant participation of tension in our ports and this made
the union to forward several letters to the Honourable Minister of
Transportation . Copies of which were forwarded to President Nigeria Labour
Congress in order to avoid escalation.
“We wish to use this medium to the Managing Director
NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman for her prompt attention to issues concerning welfare of
workers both serving and retired.
“We also want to thank the honourable minister of
transportation and permanent
secretary for granting approvals to pay the
disengaged workers severance packages.
"Of course we equally thank the President,
Nigerian Labour Congress for his timely interventions which have stalled
escalation of the issue” he concluded.
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