NNSL EX Employees Storm Ministry Of Transport

For the second time in one week, ex-staff of the liquidated national carrier; the Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL) stormed the Federal Ministry of Transport in Abuja to press home their demand for payment of their entitlements.
The visibly aggrieved ex- employees had on Wednesday carried placards bearing different messages to the ministry to demand for payment of their entitlements, about 17 years after the national carrier was liquidated by the Federal Government.

For the second time in one week, ex-staff of the liquidated national carrier; the Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL) stormed the Federal Ministry of Transport in Abuja to press home their demand for payment of their entitlements.
The visibly aggrieved ex- employees had on Wednesday carried placards bearing different messages to the ministry to demand for payment of their entitlements, about 17 years after the national carrier was liquidated by the Federal Government.
The protesters some of whom claimed to be  widows of the former staff of the national carrier carried placards some of which had messages like: "we cannot continue like this," "some of our dead are still in the mortuary," "our children are out of school," "many of us have no roof over our heads."
Shipping Position Daily recalls that the ex-NNSL workers were to have been paid by June after a verification exercise that was conducted by the ministry.
One of the protesters, who simply identified himself as Otutu Oluwashina, decried the development saying, even as he added that the ministry had after the verification directed the ex-workers to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and safety Agency, NIMASA, by an assistant human resource director in the ministry.
He stated that it is the responsibility of the ministry to direct NIMASA. "NIMASA is a parastatal in the ministry," "Is it our duty to go and meet NIMASA or the duty of the minister to summon a meeting and ask NIMASA what is it doing and make sure that our right is given to us after we have served this nation?
"If the minister want us it be dying one by one, it is better we come to the ministry and start continue dying here."
Confirming the development to our correspondent in Abuja yesterday, assistant director, press in the ministry; Abiodun Oladunjoye said the ministry had met with the protesters and that some agreements have been reached.
He however expressed surprise that they came back to the ministry, regardless of the fact that “we had some fruitful discussions with them”.