The Nigerian postal service (NIPOST) employees protested the purported unbundling of the postal agency in secrecy on Friday, stating that the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) and the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy are selling NIPOST and its properties to their allies.
On Friday, staff gathered at the gate of NIPOST’s corporate offices in Abuja to protest the agency’s alleged commercialization.
Workers of the agency, led by the leadership of two labor unions: the Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies (SSASCGOC) and the National Union of Postal and Telecommunications Employees (NUPTE), told newsmen that the protest was staged to alert President Muhammadu Buhari, relevant stakeholders, and Nigerians at large of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) plans to tactically extinct NIPOST.
One of the most contentious arguments highlighted by the protesters was that the composition of the boards of directors of the firms in charge of the agency reveals that NIPOST as an organization has no influence or investment in the subsidiaries.
