Disengaged workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), now Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) in Akure and Igbara-Oke area office of Ondo State, have threatened to sue the Federal Government and the management of the company if they fail to pay their severance entitlements within 10 days. The aggrieved former electricity workers, numbering 91, had last month staged a protest in Akure, the state capital, lamenting that all their efforts to get their entitlements have been futile.They, through their lawyer, Barrister Ifedayo Olanipekun have consequently petitioned the BEDC management and the Federal Government asking for the payment of all their entitlements. “It is the brief of our client that your company the defunct PHCN, now BEDC employed their services to improve your company’s output. Our clients stated that such casual employment was carried out at various business districts in various states across the country. “Following the above, our clients further informed us that they worked for years with payments of the sum of N12, 000 to some, while others received more or less than that as monthly salaries for their services and in October, 2013 your company stopped paying the salary up till today. “It is therefore our demands according to the mandate of our clients and in furtherance to the above that an immediate regularization of our clients be carried out and the severance benefits/entitlements as well as outstanding salaries be paid to them within 10 days or event your failure to comply, we shall not hesitate to proceed to the appropriate court,” the petition read in part.