Workers under the Ogun State civil service union have started an indefinite strike over the failure of the state government to offset their seven months of salary deductions.
The state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comr. Akeem Ambali confirmed the development to Daily Trust on phone, lamenting that the non-payment of the deductions is now taking its toll on the civil servants.
The state chairman of the Nigerian Civil Service Union (NCSU), Jide Sodiya who was spotted at the main entrance of the state secretariat taking control of workers to enforce the strike, also spoke in similar tone, declaring that the workers have been magnanimous with the government to stay this long.
In Cross Rivers, teachers in Calabar South local government area and Calabar Municipality embarked on warning and sympathy strike yesterday over allegations that leadership of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) was unduly intimidating and sacking their counterparts in Cross River north.
Pupils and students of both private primary and secondary schools in the state were told to return home by head teachers until further notice. State government directed SUBEB to screen all levels of teachers to ascertain their qualifications.
The teachers have threatened that if the ‘harassment and intimidation’ of their colleagues in the northern part of the state is not stopped, all the teachers in the state will go on indefinite strike.
One of the teachers, Mr Ambrose Otu who teaches in a government secondary school in Calabar Municipality said that many of the teachers have been sacked in the belief that they are ghost workers. In an sms to journalists in Calabar about the strike, Dr Stephen Odey, director general of SUBEB, said, “I am only doing my work. I have not indicted any teacher. We have not yet submitted our report. I have enough evidence of cases of forgery, undeserved promotions, and ghost workers.
Teachers cannot run away from the truth.”
In Plateau State, five workers unions at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), yesterday sealed the gates of the tertiary health facility after they alleged that the management failed to utilize funds made available for the procurement of consumables.
The various unions operating under the coalition of Joint Heath Sector Unions (JOHESU), gathered at the main gates of the facility in the Lamingo area of Jos, capital of Plateau State, and prevented non-doctors, including pharmacists, nurses and midwives, laboratory and other technicians, and administrative workers, as well as other non-academic workers from resuming work.
Contacted, the CMD, Professor Edmund Banwat denied JOHESU’s allegations that the management failed in committing to the signed MOU.
He insisted that he will speak to Daily Trust with documented records and not on phone as the issues are many andrequire details.
By: Kehinde Akinyemi, Eyo Charles, & Hir Joseph,
Daily Trust News
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