As the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, embarks on a two-day warning strike nationwide today, to press home their demands, workers in Anambra State, have deserted their offices to join the solidarity.
The NLC leaders, led by the State Chairman, Comrade Humphrey Emeka Nwafor, during their enforcement monitoring, placed warning strike notices at some Ministries and Agencies entrances.
Addressing Journalists shortly after the exercise at Teacher’s House Awka, on Tuesday, the NLC State Chairman, Comrade Nwafor, said they are joining their counterparts across the country to compel the Federal Government to address the plight of workers and the citizenry.
“As workers, we are also badly affected by the economic crisis visited on Nigerians due to the hike in the pump price of petrol, all in the name of subsidy removal.
“We had earlier written to the federal government to adjust our wages automatically per the existing economic realities, but that has fallen on deaf ears.
“It is over three months now that fuel subsidy had been removed, and fuel has equally been increased twice by over 300%, with a price shift from ₦187 to over ₦620, but salaries have remained the same.
“Workers and Nigerians at large have gone through excruciatingly tough times within this period. It has been stories of mass suffering, and life has been made almost meaningless to the common citizens.
“Everything has been nauseating, and hunger is now a way of life among Nigerians.
“You Journalists can see that the exercise recorded 80% success in the State.
“There was no recorded fracas between us and the workers during the enforcement exercise. The exercise was peaceful and it will continue tomorrow by the grace of God.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led-Federal Government knows our demands, so he should without further delay, do the needful.
The Chairman called on all industrial unions, organising workers in Anambra State to comply with the directives of the NLC for the good of all.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the State Chapter of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), was not part of the solidarity movement.
A senior civil servant, who does not want his name in the print, told our correspondent in one of the offices that the industrial action was in order. What the NLC is doing is commendable. I commend them, he stated.
Our correspondent, who commenced monitoring the industrial action at about 7:05 a.m., observed that some banks and businesses were under lock and key either for fear of the unknown or in solidarity.
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