The workers, under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees , vowed to keep the company shut until the remittances were confirmed and paid.
According to Riruwai, KEDCO victimised union leaders who were trying to speak on behalf of the workers.“This act is imperialist; it is the rights of workers to fight for what is theirs,” he said. According to NAN, all workers, including management staff, were forced out of the premises of the firm’s headquarters., the management of KEDCO, said the picketing of its offices by the NUEE, is a result of “lingering staff welfare issues which accumulated over the last six years”.
The electricity firm assured that “a robust plan has been drawn and the outstanding is being paid in batches, due to inability to settle all at once owing to current liquidity crises in the power sector”.
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