In Lagos, majority of teachers and students in both public and private schools went to school and had their lessons and other activities as scheduled, on Tuesday.
They told Nigerian Tribune that nobody instructed them as of the time of closing from work on Monday not to come to work on Tuesday because of industrial action.
They said if they were told they wouldn’t have bothered to turn up as they did.
They said they only heard about the general strike through the media and could not act based only on that.
They explained that they could only take instruction on such matters from the leadership of their union, Nigeria Union of Teachers(NUT) and not that of Nigeria Labour Congress( NLC), their parent’s body.
The NUT chairman of the state, Mr Hassan Akintoye and the Secretary, Mr Gbenga Ayetoba, both confirmed to Nigerian Tribune that the directive for every worker to proceed on industrial came rather late on Monday.
They said it was not only the teachers who went to work in Lagos on Tuesday but many other workers in other sectors did.
“But now we have sent the circular round to our branches across the state about the directive for members to join other workers to go on strike and we are to be fully complied with the directive from Wednesday,” state’s NUT boss said.
Akintoye explained that it was not as if Nigerian workers were hungry for strike as the action most times compounded the country’s economic problems but the political actors and government agencies are not sensitive to the plights of the masses.
He said workers would not have declared industrial action if the Federal Government and its relevant agencies had taken action against those who brutalised the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, who was on official assignment in Imo.
He queried if the personality of the President of NLC could not be respected but rather treated as nobody, no one else among workers is safe anywhere in the country.
“So, this ongoing strike,” he stressed, “is for justice to be served to Ajaero attackers. His attackers attacked the entire Nigerian workers and not only the president and they must all be fished out to face consequences of their action.”
He maintained that it was unheard of for the police authorities to be claiming that the commissioner of police in Imo State at the time Ajaero was attacked had been deployed to another state and that he was also brutalised by thugs and therefore nothing anybody could do again about the inhuman treatment meted on Ajaero.
He asked rhetorically if those thugs are spirit that they could not be arrested and prosecuted for their actions.
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