Civil servants in Kwara State on Monday joined their counterparts across the country to observe a strike order jointly called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to press home improved salaries and other industrial demands.
Our correspondent, who monitored the situation in the Ilorin metropolis and environs, observed that government offices, schools and courts among others were under lock and key.
Many traffic-prone areas were seen to be free for motorists and pedestrians plying unhindered.
Shortly after the monitoring of the level of compliance, the NLC Chairman in the state, Comrade Murtala Olayinka, expressed satisfaction with the situation.
According to him, the situation on the ground and the positive response of workers to the directives show that the people are tired of many government policies.
Olayinka explained that “the union would continue to go round to ensure full mobilisation of workers.”
He disclosed that the union adopted the sit-at-home order “to prevent possible hijack of the protest.”
He urged the government to urgently do the needful to save workers from suffering.
Also in a telephone chat, the TUC chairman in Kwara, Comrade Abdulrahman Onikijipa, assured that the two unions would join hands to ensure the success of the strike action, noting that the union chose stay-at-home to make the strike liberal.
Onikijipa appealed to governments at all levels to rethink and save workers from avoidable death.
