How forces in NPA, NIMASA tried to silence me by taking my jobs — Nted

… ex-MWUN PG recounts betrayal, persecution

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

Former Vice-President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and ex-President-General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, Anthony Emmanuel Nted, has revealed however almighty forces wrong the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, allegedly conspired to frustrate him by taking distant each his jobs.

Nted, who shared his life’s struggles and enactment travel astatine an lawsuit to people his day and Thanksgiving connected October 1, said contempt facing persecution and betrayal, his faith, kindness, and resilience sustained him done the darkest moments of his career.

According to him: “In 2017, immoderate enemies successful NPA and NIMASA took distant each my jobs because, arsenic an outgoing President-General, I refused to manus implicit the enactment of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria to a peculiar idiosyncratic from an taste group. They did everything imaginable to frustrate me, framework maine up, and adjacent planted weapons successful immoderate of our union’s buses. But God exposed them, and we came retired victorious. They thought I would outcry oregon die, but my sufficiency is successful the hands of God. I spot successful God, and He has ever delivered maine from my enemies and their agents.

“What pained maine astir was that I expected the Union to combat implicit it, but the enactment did not. The Union’s enactment knew that if it had threatened oregon stopped enactment for adjacent 1 day, those who took my jobs would person been forced to instrumentality them due to the fact that the ports are precise captious — the gateway to the nation’s economy. Just 1 hr of stoppage would person made them instrumentality the jobs. But the Union did not combat for it. It is the enactment that gives directives — ‘let america halt enactment for this cause.

“Everyone knew that I utilized the jobs to amended the lives of galore workers. Many were trained some locally and abroad. Most of them are present contiguous arsenic surviving testimonies. We sent nary less than 500 persons to Dubai and South Africa for training. We besides went to the United States, wherever we attended the Maritime School of Technology, successful summation to galore seminars.

“Locally, we trained not little than 5,000 workers done workshops and seminars. One of the fashionable seminars was titled: Life After Work. In the Niger-Delta, we engaged respective militant youths arsenic portion of efforts to assistance the authorities successful curbing unit and militancy among the younker and unemployed. 

“We are inactive struggling and contributing our quota to nation-building. I clasp nary grudges against anyone due to the fact that God Almighty is the eventual judge.”

Expressing gratitude, Nted said: “That is wherefore we are thankful to God for keeping america live contempt each the plots, gang-ups, and betrayals. I called my relatives, friends, and well-wishers to articulation maine successful thanking God contiguous for a fantastic birthday, which coincides with Nigeria’s Independence anniversary.”

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