By our Reporter
The Executives of National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has said that the union has suspended ongoing strike by its members that has thrown most parts of the country into darkness for the past 24 hours.
The suspension of the strike followed intervention by the Ministers of Labour, Mr Chris Ngige, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, Powe as well as the Minister of State for Power, Mr Goddy Jedy-Agba, and the representative of the Head of Service, Mr Godfrey Abah, the Chairman, FCT chapter of NUEE who spoke in Abuja on Wednesday.
Others at the meeting he said were the representative of the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) and the management of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
He said all the issues were presented and a high power delegation was set up to look into the matter and report back within two weeks.
”On that premise, we decided to suspend the strike for two weeks pending when the issues will be resolved, ” he said.
Abah also said that on the issue the union had with the TCN’s Board, they had written a letter to schedule a meeting with them to resolve the issue.