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The privatization of Nigeria's electricity production is not universally popular, as the demonstration reported by Next proves. But who is opposed? And given the failures of the public power company (PHCN) and general opinion about PHCN, you have to be pretty audacious to hold it up as a model of public enterprise.Group protests power company's sale
Nigerian workers, under the umbrella organisation of the Joint Action Forum (JAF), the pro-Labour civil society partner in the Labour and Civil Society Coalition, took to the streets of Lagos yesterday to protest the planned privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).
In a press release issued by the JAF, they described President Goodluck Jonathan's Roadmap on Electricity Power Reform as "another gigantic fraud meant to hand over another publicly owned enterprise (PHCN) to the looters' cousins and pirates called private investors."...
Abiodun Aremu, the Secretary of the JAF, said the workers are completely opposed to the privatisation because it has never worked in Nigeria. "We are opposed to the privatisation of the electricity sector," he said. "Government has a responsibility to ensure there is light for Nigerians; to ensure that what is publicly owned is not privatised because all cases of privatised public enterprises has been a disaster…
PHCN provides a good source of employment for the common man which would be jeopardised if the electricity sector is privatised. This was the view expressed by Jacob Ishola, the Vice President of Lagos State chapter of the National Union of Electricity Employees…
However, another association, the Coalition of Residence and Business Associations of Nigeria, opposed the actions of the JAF. Their National Chairman, Abayomi Daodu, who was present at the rally, said that the JAF was wrong and were only conducting the rally for their own selfish interests...
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posted by Ken Wedding @ 6:17 AM
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