A pro-Biafra group, Biafra Provisional Government has come hard on the organised labour over the total blackout in Imo State. The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, PLC, EEDC, had on Thursday, blamed the blackout on the labour strike, lamenting that it was beyond its control.
The blackout was imposed on the state by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and their counterpart, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, following the attack on the NLC President, Joe Ajaero in the State. The pro-Biafra group, however, accused Ajaero of using the ongoing blackout in the state to gain cheap popularity and cause disaffection between the state government and the people. The President of Biafra's Provisional Government, Dr.
Cheap popularity? Bearing in mind that the hospitality industry is the backbone of the economy in Owerri, with the crushing cost of Diesel and gasoline, how will the hotels survive, and how do they pay their workers salaries?” He lamented that by shutting down power supply, Ndigbo were now degenerating into contributing to their own sufferings in some percentage, after years of cries of marginalization.
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