The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has faulted the alleged
planned sale of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, said this in a statement
titled, “This Kite will not Fly’’ on Friday in Abuja.
“The NLC has learnt with great consternation a surreptitious
plan to sell the TCN.
“The report in The Guardian on June 17 merely burst open the
behind the scene manoeuvrings of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).
“We wish to place in the public domain that neither congress
nor the sectoral affiliate union was officially contacted or even informally
consulted on the alleged plan.
“Therefore, congress advises that if the report was planted
in the newspaper and so designed to fly a kite, the paper kite is riddled with
holes, sodden, clumsy and torn in different places, ’’he said.
He said the NLC condemned with vigour the continued
stripping and stealing of Nigeria’s economic assets.
He said the current attempt to hand over the TCN to a few
‘privileged’ Nigerians was self-serving, obtuse, odious, morally reprehensible
and criminal.
He said Nigerian workers and people were vehemently opposed
to this plot and would resist the grand larceny.
“The TCN is a strategic economic asset of immense national
security implications. This is because the TCN traverses all nooks and crannies
of Nigeria.
“It will be wrong that our country will be deliberately exposed
to an avoidable vulnerability and thus, provide an opportunity to others to
restrain the Nigerian state.
“This position flows from the ineluctable lesson of the
historical incidents of allowing some private organisations of questionable
intentions and antecedence to own and run strategic economic assets in our
country,’’ he said.
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