BPE :1,169 ex-PHCN workers not yet paid

Dikki disclosed this when he briefed members of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP), at its meeting held in the Presidential Villa, recently.
The NCP, however, noted that 46,744 out of the 47,913 staff, representing 98 per cent of the workforce of the defunct PHCN, have been paid their entitlements, amounting to N373.1 billion.Dikki told Council members that the unpaid workers included those that have left before severance payment, those undergoing the process of validation and those yet to be identified by PHCN as genuine workers, adding that the working group was looking into these cases.
 A statement from the BPE said the council noted that 2,791 retired staff of the PHCN, representing 65 per cent of the retirees, have been paid N16.4 billion with an outstanding number of 1,516 retirees who have so far failed to turn up for verification or were still undergoing further verification or their next of kin have not been able to produce the necessary court papers.
The NCP also noted the commendable progress achieved by the implementation committee on the payment of the severance, pension and gratuity of the workers and retirees of PHCN.
It then directed the implementation committee to handover to BPE all information and documents concerning outstanding active staff and pensioners verifications and payments.