Strike: NLC Promise to Ground Economy If Demands Are not Met

From Ogundele Olanrewaju

Following the planned 2 days nationwide protest of Nigeria labour congress NLC, Oyo state government has pledged its full support for their agitations which he described as legitimate struggle.

Hundreds of the The protesters comprised of members of ASUU, TUC, NLC and other affiliated union groups stormed the Oyo state secretariat in their solidarity with the labour action embarked on some 6 months ago by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

While addressing the protesters, Governor Seyi Makinde represented by his deputy, Barrister Bayo Lawal, frown at the strike that have kept the students at home for month, promised that appropriate steps that will make the Federal government listen to the voice of the masses is taken.

He promised that in no distance time students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology LAUTECH will return to school adding that the state government is doing is best to ensure that its work force enjoy maximum benefits.

Earlier in his speech, Chairman, NLC, Oyo State chapter, Comrade Kayode Martins, said that rise in crime rate among youth as a result of being at home for long and other effect which propel the union and other affiliated groups to organize a solidarity call to both federal and state government to do the needful to the education sector.

The leaderships of the NLC, therefore sent a strong warning to the federal governments to be prepared for a total shutdown if the protest did not yield a positive result.

The Nigeria Labour Congress had last week directed workers in state capitals and Abuja to join the nationwide protests on Tuesday and Wednesday.