The Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government-Owned Companies has accused the Central Bank of Nigeria of frustrating the proposed reform of the Nigerian Postal Service.
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The union also listed the Federal Ministry of Finance among organisations and individuals in government that do not want NIPOST to be repositioned for optimum performance.
NIPOST is one of the government establishments whose workers are members of the union.
General Secretary of SSASCGOC, Mr Ayo Olorunfemi, made the allegation in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday.
The planned reform, which has been underway for some years, is expected to overhaul Nigeria’s postal and courier system.
Noting that the reform was in the best interest of the country as well as NIPOST staff, Olorunfemi said that some individuals and organisations had been frustrating the plan due to pecuniary reasons.
He specifically pointed out that the CBN and the Ministry of Finance did not want NIPOST to collect stamp duties – an assignment which he said the postal agency was constitutionally mandated to undertake.
“Whenever government comes out to say it wants to do something, government may have a genuine intention but so many interests will begin to come in.
“I can assure you that there are some people and some organisations who do not want NIPOST to come alive.
“The CBN and the Ministry of Finance, from their body language and the way they have been treating the reform in NIPOST, we know that they don’t want this thing to work.
“NIPOST has the power under the law to collect stamp duty but now, that stamp duty is being kept at the CBN; it is not being released. The Ministry of Finance is looking at that money.
He observed that the planned reform required a lot of money, which the organisation would have been able to generate if it was allowed to function effectively.
Efforts to get the reaction of the managements of CBN and the Ministry of Finance were not successful at the time of filing this report.
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