Anxiety as workers protest, condemn planned commercialisation of NIPOST

WORKERS of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) on Friday protested the alleged unbundling of the postal agency in secrecy, alleging that the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) and the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy are indirectly selling NIPOST and its properties to their cronies.

The workers converged on the gate of the corporate headquarters of NIPOST in Abuja on Friday to protest the alleged commercialisation of the agency.

The workers, who were led by the leadership of two labour unions: the Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies (SSASCGOC) and the National Union of Postal and Telecommunications Employees (NUPTE) workers of the agency, told newsmen that the protest was staged to alert President Muhammadu Buhari, relevant stakeholders as well as Nigerians at large of the plans of the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) to tactically extinct NIPOST under the guise of reform/commercialisation.

Addressing journalists, SSASCGOC General Secretary, Comrade Ayo Olorunfemi, said: “BPE began the process of commercialisation in the Nigerian Postal Service with the assurance of making NIPOST a more service-oriented and profit-driven organization. The proposed reform according to the BPE will not only improve the traditional services of NIPOST but will also bring about new revenue streams for the Organization, which will in turn greatly impact the morale and welfare of staffers. Nation