If news reaching the desk of CEOAFRICA.com is anything to go by, then Nigerians should be bracing-up to witness total shutdown of power, as the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government of Nigeria in resolving the ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, or face total shut down of electricity facilities in the country.

Disclosing this, the General Secretary of NUEE, Mr Joe Ajaero, said the electricity workers across the country would be directed to join the progressive labour unions to shut down the country as a way of expressing their displeasure over the lingering impasse between ASUU and the Federal Government.

Speaking at a training workshop for labour leaders in the power sector in Enugu, Mr. Ajaero said:

“We can no longer sit back and watch this disturbing drama going on between the Federal government and ASUU.  If the strike is not addressed within the next one week, NUEE and other progressive unions, will shut down the country.

“It is unfortunate that those in power are not bothered about the closure of the universities. They are less concerned because none of their children are studying in Nigerian universities.

“Their children are overseas just as they travel overseas for medical attention because they have allowed our hospitals to die. Whether our children are out of school or not they are not bothered but we are going to join our children to stay at home from next week.”

Furthermore, Ajaero urged the National Assembly to make laws that will enforce public office holders to be sending their children to school in Nigeria, not overseas any longer.

 “Our public institutions are dead because those unpatriotic leaders have nothing to do with them but when they are banned from traveling overseas to access improved facilities, they will have no option than to look inward and address our numerous challenges,” he added.

He also said that payment of their members’ entitlements had remained slow explaining that the government’s promise to conclude the payment before weekend might not be feasible as majority of the workers were yet to be settled.