By Tony Obiechina, Abuja
The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), on Thursday debunked claims that it is conducting another verification exercise for the former staff of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria PHCN for the purpose of paying their unclaimed entitlements.
The BPE made the clarification following a widely publicised circular by a certain group requesting disengaged staff of the defunct PHCN to visit designated centers in the country with relevant documents and fees to collect forms for another verification exercise.
But a statement in Abuja on Thursday by the head of Public Affairs, Amina Tukur Othman said the BPE has nothing to do with the purported verification exercise.
Part of the statement read: “Our attention has been drawn to attempts by a group of former staff of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to link the Bureau to a purported verification exercise for the disengaged staff of the entity and they have circulated various correspondences to their members in that regard.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the BPE is not conducting another verification exercise for the defunct staff of the PHCN and is not in any way connected with the purported verification by the group.
“It must be noted that each time the Bureau carries out verification of former staff of the defunct PHCN, adequate publicity is carried out with the involvement of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and the Senior Staff Association Of Electricity And Allied Companies (SSAEC). But in the purported verification by the group these are absent.
“BPE wishes to dissociate itself from the purported verification and warns all former staff of the PHCN and general public to beware! To be warned is to be forearmed!”
