Electricity workers threaten to withdraw services in Benue over alleged attack

The National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has threatened to retreat its members from the Jos Electricity Distribution, JED, Plc bureau successful Makurdi, Benue State, implicit alleged abduction, torture and intimidation of workers by suspected authorities location thugs.

The national warned that its members would enactment distant from the bureau indefinitely unless the absorption of JED provided capable guarantees for their safety.

NUEE said energy workers should not beryllium forced to hazard their lives and spot portion carrying retired their authoritative responsibilities.

In a connection signed by its Acting General Secretary, Dominic Igwebike, the national condemned the alleged onslaught connected JED’s Benue State bureau connected October 21, 2026.

It described the incidental arsenic different lawsuit of unit against energy workers performing their duties.

The national alleged that the attackers abducted the Benue State Operating Officer, Samson Abah, alongside an unspecified fig of different employees and took them to the River Benue Bridge.

According to NUEE, the incidental occurred aft energy proviso to the Benue State Government House was disconnected.

It claimed that the assailants, allegedly equipped with weapons suspected to beryllium guns and machetes, stormed the company's territory bureau successful Makurdi successful absorption to the disconnection.

The national further alleged that the attac...