There is a marginal compliance in Plateau State, North-Central Nigeria with the nationwide strike embarked upon by Organised Labour over demand for new national minimum wage and reversal of electricity tariff with schools, businesses and banks opened for normal activities.
However, the State and Federal Secretariats are under lock and key as workers have respected the order by staying at home.
State Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Sunday Akinfolarin said there is about 60% compliance with hope that more will join as time goes on.
And in Zamfara State, North-West Nigeria, Labour officials moved from one public and private establishment to the other to enforce total compliance with the nationwide indefinite strike directed by the two labour centres.
The enforcement team led by the State NLC Chairman, Sani Halilu, and his TUC counterpart, Sai’du Mudi, shut down the Yahaya Gusau Federal Secretariat.
The team also picketed one of the branches of Access Bank located at Sani Abacha Road in the Gusau metropolis, for allegedly failing to comply with the strike, and refusing to grant the enforcement team access into the bank premises, unlike the other banks that granted them unfettered access, and complied with the strike.
The two labour leaders, while addressing journalists over the indefinite strike embarked upon by Organised Labour nationwide, said they would institute a legal suit against Access Bank for its recalcitrant attitude.
Efforts to speak with someone who identified himself as Manager of the Access Bank branch that was picketed were unsuccessful, as he declined to comment on the development.
They said the strike is total, and they wanted all concerned to comply with the directive, as the economic situation affects all Nigerians.
They also claimed that the Federal Government has failed to fulfil its promises to alleviate the hardship caused by the removal of fuel subsidy which has resulted in the high inflation in the country.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
