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Views: Visits 8 By Harris Emanuel, Uyo Former staffers of Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State on Wednesday took to the street to vent their anger over the non-payment of their severance benefits running into millions of naira To this end, they handed a two-week ultimatum to BPE and PTAD to pay their monies, otherwise, they would take legal action against the two federal agencies. Convener of the protest, Hope Ufot Wilfred said the BPE had carried out a verification exercise for disengaged workers of the company in 2012 which did capture every staff. He said that ALSCON had a total number of 1,805, but expressed dismay that names of 562 of them were omitted from the company’s nominal roll, which prompted the federal government to direct PTAD to conduct another staff verification exercise in 2019 as a precondition for the payment of severance benefits.
Ex-ALSCON workers protest, threaten to sue BPE, PTAD over severance entitlements
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Former workers of the moribund Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria(ALSCON) in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, in the early hours of Wednesday embarked on a peaceful protest over the non-payment of their severance entitlements.
They blamed the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) and the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) for their predicament and threatened a lawsuit against the federal agencies.
Some of the placards displayed by the protesters read thus, ”BPE/PTAD You cannot deprive us of our entitlements. We say No to injustice”, “Corruption hits BPE/PTAD. What do you mean by nominal roll? ”Total number of ALSCON workers was 1,805 and NOT 1,243 as your nominal roll says”.
Former ALSCON staff threaten BPE, PTAD with lawsuit over unpaid severance benefits
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By Harris Emanuel, Uyo
Former staffers of Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State on Wednesday took to the street to vent their anger over the non-payment of their severance benefits running into millions of naira
To this end, they handed a two-week ultimatum to BPE and PTAD to pay their monies, otherwise, they would take legal action against the two federal agencies.
Convener of the protest, Hope Ufot Wilfred said the BPE had carried out a verification exercise for disengaged workers of the company in 2012 which did capture every staff.
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