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Ex-ALSCON workers protest, threaten to sue BPE, PTAD over severance entitlements Published 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 o...

Former ALSCON staff threaten BPE, PTAD with lawsuit over unpaid severance benefits On 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 disen...