Kaduna Electricity Employees Set To Resume Suspended Strike

By Ayodele Oni

Residents of Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara, and Kebbi states have appealed to the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) not to resume their suspended strike over the sack of a number of workers in their franchise.

 There are indications that the proposed strike may likely affect the Ramadan period.

An industrial crisis between the management and the staff of the company in January, which lasted for many days, put some states in the northwest in total darkness.

It took the intervention of the Governor of Kaduna state, Uba Sani and other stakeholders who waded into the crisis, before the electricity was restored.

NUEE is now threatening to go back to the trenches and put back the areas into another blackout, which if not quickly resolved may again affect the economy of its covering states.

A letter signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Union, Sheyin Wakili and Ado Ali, dated 24th February, 2025, ordered that at the expiration of a seven day ultimatum, the services of the union be shutdown.

The letter titled: ‘Notice of Total Withdrawal of Service and Shut Down of Kaduna Electric, reads: ” I am mandated by the entire state council to notify you of  total withdrawal of service and shut down of Kaduna electric which should take place on 00:00HRS of 1st March, 2025 as at the expiration and compliance of the aforementioned notice.

“All chapter Executives are by this notice to begin preparation and mobilizing for action immediately.”