Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) has described the picketing of its facilities by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) as a campaign of calumny and an act of economic sabotage to the company and the people of Adamawa, Borno, Taraba and Yobe states.
The Head of Corporate Communications, Mr. Olugbenga Adebola, in a statement, yesterday, affirmed the firm’s commitment to using its resources to serve common interest.
According to the statement, the issues at stake were being deliberately misconstrued by the labour unions, emphasising that it was open to further engagements with them.
He said there was nothing clandestine about the ownership of Yola DisCo as claimed by the labour unions, saying Quest Nigeria Limited (owners of the Disco), bought the company in a transparent process supervised by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).
“Before that, the previous owners had declared a force majeur and handed over to the government. The government kept running it until they advertised and Quest won the bid.
“We came in and met an organisation that needed to be repositioned to stabilise the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, as it had huge losses, mismatch in job alignment and an ageing workforce that requires right-sizing and realignment,” he said.
Adebola, however, explained that some disengaged staff got two letters, including letters of re-engagement, for those whose services were still required.
His words: “Those that got two letters were asked to stay back to provide all the maintenance support needed before the second phase of the recruitment.”
