No Due Process In Sunshine Batteries Sale – Former DG

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By  UbongAbasi Ise

Former Director-General of the defunct Sunshine Batteries, Engr. Godfrey Anige, says he is unaware of the liquidation of Sunshine Batteries by Akwa Ibom State government.
Anige, who served as the Director General until the battery-producing company eventually closed-shop, told The Sensor recently that he was kept in the blues when the state government purportedly sold off the company to Beko International in 2014.
According to Anige, the liquidation of the company was not done the right way, and the staff of the company were not taken into consideration. He, therefore, called on the aggrieved staff not to relent in agitating for their right.
In a letter addressed to Governor Udom Emmanuel through Akwa Ibom State Branch of Civil Liberty Organisation, CLO, dated 3rd October, 2017, and signed by CLO Chairman, Barr. Clifford Thomas, the staff of the defunct company stressed that there was no meeting with them to discuss their fate when the new company took over the facilities and premises of Sunshine Batteries.
According to the letter, machineries worth over Three Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N350,000,000) were dismantled and sold by this new company as scrap. The letter further disclosed that various partitioning, wares and facilities within the company have since been dismantled and sold off without taking the welfare, salaries, emoluments and interests of the personnel of Sunshine Batteries into consideration.
They demanded for the payment of all outstanding and allowances at current government-approved rates from July, 1993 - September, 1997; a period of 51 months. They also called for payment of all outstanding National Pensions Fund (NPF) (5%) contributions and contributory pensions' scheme (10%) from August 1985 to September, 1997; payment of terminal entitlements/benefits at current government rates (1985 - 1997); payment of other severance compensations and benefits on Workmen's compensation, hazard insurance, etc.

Source: The Sensor Newspaper

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