The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, has refused plans by the Federal Government to re-float the Nigeria National Shipping Line, NNSL, 28 years after its liquidation by the government of Olusegun Obasanjo.
Recall the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola informed the ministry’s first Stakeholders’ Roundtable Engagement on Advancing Sustainable Development in Nigeria’s Marine and Blue Economy sector in Lagos that the ministry plans to re-float the NNSL through a strategic public-private partnership (PPP) arrangement.
But President-General of MWUN, Adewale Adeyanju, in a statement, insisted that the fallouts of NNSL liquidation, especially the unpaid benefits of its former employees, must be resolved amicably before any re-floating under whatever guise could be discussed.
He added that the Union is now having a different view of the Minister when he did not speak about the aged seafarers who navigated with the defunct national carrier vessels over the new NNSL proposal.
