Release Our Husbands For Us, There’s No Coronavirus – Wives Of Egbin Power Station Workers

Wives of Egbin power station workers are on a riot as they storm the power station to release their husbands to who have been separated from their families and living at the resident Power Station residence since the lockdown by the FG was put in place. 

The staff of the Egbin power station at Egbin-Ikorodu, have reportedly stormed the Power Station demanding that their husbands be released after they were banned from going home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They were giving the option to stay within the company’s residential estate to avoid Coronavirus or go home and lose their jobs.

However, videos of wives of the Egbin power station workers have been trending online of the women complaining of not seeing their husbands in weeks due to the decree and giving the firm 24 hours to release their husbands or they would take decisive actions.

In one of the videos trending online, one of the protesting wives could be heard saying “Release our husbands for us. There is no Coronavirus.”

“The wives are protesting for the management of the power holding company to let their husbands come home.

“The electricity company has been privatised now. The Asians in charge call the shots and they have given them a choice. Either stay back and work or go home and be jobless.”

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. Wives of Egbin power station workers made a scene as they called for their husbands to be released to them. . . Staff of Egbin power station, in Egbin-Ikorodu, have reportedly been banned from going home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. . . According to a source who spoke to LIB, the staff were told that if they leave the premises of the estate, they stand to loose their jobs. . . However, wives of the workers, who have not seen their husbands for weeks due to the official decree, stormed the estate where staff of Egbin power station workers are housed. . . In a video making the rounds, the women threatened that they will take action if they return after 25 hours and their husbands have not been released to them . . “Release our husbands for us. There is no Coronavirus,” the women called from the gate to estate. . . A source who spoke to LIB said: “The wives are protesting for the management of the power holding company to let their husbands come home. . . “The electricity company has been privatised now. The Asians in charge call the shots and they have given them a choice. Either stay back and work or go home and be jobless.”

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