NLC Strike: Don’t Tamper With Nation’s Power Assets — Minister To Electrical Workers

The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu has issued a warning to electrical workers against damaging the national grid while on strike.

The minister asserted that doing so was illegal and undermined efforts to guarantee a reliable supply of electricity for Nigerians.

Minister of Power Adebayo Adelabu stated over the weekend, “You can carry out industrial action without shutting down or vandalising the grid.

“Unauthorised access to the National Control Centre is a crime and economic sabotage that must be treated with serious consequences. We need to talk to ourselves”.

During the two-day Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) warning strike earlier this month, the minister alleges, the government learnt that electricity workers had attacked the control centre in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, with the intent of causing a nationwide blackout.