The Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has assured that it would continue to embark on international and local training for members of the union in 2013, even as it has promised to motivate the workers better by improving on their welfare packages.
President of the branch, Comrade Leke Sanni in chat with Shipping Position Daily correspondent last week said that these trainings are very essential for members of the union to become better on their respective jobs.
The Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) branch of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has assured that it would continue to embark on international and local training for members of the union in 2013, even as it has promised to motivate the workers better by improving on their welfare packages.
President of the branch, Comrade Leke Sanni in chat with Shipping Position Daily correspondent last week said that these trainings are very essential for members of the union to become better on their respective jobs.
Comerade Sanni explained that the union on its own has been sending people on both local trainings and even beyond the shores of the country so as to make them become proactive on the job, but this year it intends to further improve upon it.
He revealed that the management of the Union is also working towards total computerization and ICT compliance of its members. According to him, information technology is essential, and the management of the union is working on providing equipment that would make the work easier for workers.
Apart from these, Comrade Sanni assured that staff welfare package will be improved upon so as to motivate them to put extra effort and to go the extra miles to achieve the aims and objectives of the organisation.
While recounting some of the achievements recorded last year by the union, Sanni recalled that the Union was able to educate their members with a programme tagged ‘life after retirement’ which started last year and is still in progress.
According to him, “we don’t want to start the training when people are about three months or two months to go, so we trained people that are up to six years to three years to leave the organisation on how to involve themselves in viable little, little business that can sustain them”.
As a result of what the pressure of life after retirement has caused a lot of Nigerians, Sanni said that the management is doing everything possible so as to ensure that its members do not experience what the past ex-staff of the union had faced during their time.
“We don’t want them to fall into the trap the way the past ex-staff had fallen, especially on the trap of pennywise by these ‘wonder banks’, some of them were duped and it resulted to death, even some of them were afflicted with stroke when they could not recover their money, and that is why we are educating our members on how to live their lives after retirement”, he said.
Comrade Sanni, though commending the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) on the good job that the authority has been doing, urged them to improve on the training of members of staff and officers, saying that there should be an improvement to take the organization to the next level.
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