According to a public
announcement broadcast in Radio Nigeria, Heartland FM and Hot FM, signed by all
the labour leaders, in lauding the State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress,
NLC, Mr. Austen Chilakpu, all workers were ordered to remain in their
respective homes until otherwise directed by the union leaders.
The aggrieved labour
leaders hinged their current action on the unwillingness of the state
government to fulfil its own part of the recent agreement it freely entered
with labour, over the backlog of unpaid salaries and allowances owed workers.
A civil servant that spoke
on strict grounds of anonymity, fumed that “Governor Rochas Okorocha chose to
travel to the United States of America, when he should have stayed at home to
resolve the brewing labour crisis that has now hit the state.”
Continuing, the worker, who
accused the Governor of double standard, wondered why he should send his son
overseas to study, when his administration not only prides itself with running
free education at all levels, but had also been claiming that Imo State
University, compete with other universities across the world.
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