Container pilfering:  MWUN boss reads riot act to union officials, members.

The President General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju told officials and members of the union that any union member caught in any act of stealing shall be expelled.

This is coming on the heels of recent reports of pilfering of some containers at the Ports and Cargo terminal.

He also called on the management of the Ports and Cargo terminal to fix the security lapses in the port that gives rise to criminals invading the terminal to vandalize containers belonging to importers.

The PG of the Union, handed down the warning in a meeting with the officials and management of the terminal at the secretariat of the union in Lagos.

Comrade Adeyanju charged the management of the terminal to illuminate the facility saying that it is not useful to have a Close Circuit Television (CCTV) in the terminal without lighting.

His words, “When I heard that the things that have been buried in the past have started surfacing again, I was a little bit worried that where is it coming from.

“I had to go underground and found out that these problems are coming from Ports and Cargo. Not only Ports and Cargo, others still cover their own.

“But it is the Port and Cargo own that people are talking about now.

“What I did today was to call all the union officers, the local units and I said if you don’t have a thief in your house, an outside one will not come in.

“We made it known to the management that they should go and put their security in place. If they have CCTV, they should be able to identify who and who is responsible for the pilfering.

“If you go to APMT now, before you enter their gate, they know somebody is coming, if ordinary pin drips at night, they will see it. That is the CCTV we are talking about not the one you have and there is no light in the terminal, how do you expect the thing to work?

“Those are the things that I think the management should put in place.

“I don’t want anyone to put the name of the union in bad light. That is why I called the branch officers of dock workers and part of my meeting with them is to read my own riot act

“Any of my workers, any Labour or any unit or district officer that gets himself involved in stealing, or conniving with anyone to steal will be expelled from the union,” he warned.