By Folashade Alli
Commercial activities at Nigeria’s premier seaport, the Apapa Port Complex was downtooled yesterday by protesting retirees of the NigeriaPort Authority (NPA), who were severed in 2006 after the port concession regime.
The former NPA workers who staged a peaceful protest at Apapa Port gate were said to have been paid severance benefits.
However, they claim that they were supposed to be also absorbed in the authority’s pension scheme.
Tensions are already going high has some dock workers seek to enter the port for their daily job, saying the ex-NPA workers cannot stop them from doing their own jobs.
However, the Nigerian Police are at the scene of event with squad of mobile police officers have arrived the port.