The labour leader was killed by unknown gunmen on Wednesday evening.
The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Onuh Edoka and his Trade Union Congress (TUC) counterpart Comrade Ranti Ojo, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Thursday in Lokoja.
The labour leaders explained that the negotiation which supposed to continue with the government on Thursday was suspended to enable labour leaders to mourn their slain colleague.
According to them, the late Abdulmumuni Yakubu who was until his death, the branch chairman of Non Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (NASU) at the Kogi State Science Technology and Technical Education Board, was gruesomely murdered alongside his friend in his house in Okene on Wednesday night.
The organised labour lamented that the murder of the unionist was a confirmation of the fear that the lives of the labour leaders in the state were daily threatened because of their agitations for better welfare package for civil servants in the state.
“The labour leaders will only return to negotiating table as soon as there is full assurances of their safety and that of the members of their families”, said the statement.
The organised labour condemned the murder of the union leader and called on Kogi state police command and the state government to urgently unravel this behind the dastardly act.
The said the organised labour in the state would fight on to ensure that his death would not go the way of many unresolved murder cases in Kogi State
The labour leaders urged workers to remain steadfast and prayerful as God would intervene on their behalf.
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