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| Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State |
Nigeria Labour Congress has accused the Imo
State Government of secretly sacking workers in the state, and has vowed to
shut down government.
Rising from its National Executive Council
meeting on Friday, the labour union said it would “mobilize to Imo state to
shut it down as a response to Governor Okorocha’s consistent anti-labour
policies, impunity and retrenchment of workers.
Also speaking on the matter, the Imo State
Chairman of the NLC, Austin Chilakpu, said the leadership of NLC was not
opposed to reduction of the state workforce, but NLC is kicking against the
faulty process been used because these workers were employed under the civil
and public service rules.
Chilakpu said that already, the NLC had given
seven days ultimatum to the state government to reverse the decision.
In the communiqué released on Sunday and
signed by its President, Ayuba Wabba, and General Secretary, Peter Ozo-Eson,
the NLC accused Governor Rochas Okorocha of raising a private militia currently
inflicting injuries on innocent workers.
Congress considers this as illegal and resolved to make a report to the IG of Police, warning that in the event that Okorocha violates the law by unleashing the militia again on workers there will be trouble
Meanwhile in the last few days the governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha has been having different confontation with civil servants in the state over what he termed temporary leave to allow his government carry out an audit of the state work force.
Over three thousand workers are said to be affected.
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