Warning Strike: Ogun Records Partial Compliance

The two-day warning industrial action declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) recorded partial compliance in Ogun State on Tuesday as civil servants, health workers, as well as others reported for work at their respective duty posts.

At some of the federal institutions visited across the state on Tuesday, which included the Federal Medical Center, Idi-Aba Abeokuta, LEADERSHIP observed that only medical doctors and nurses were fully on ground to carryout their duties, while other workers who are members of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) were absent.

Same scenario was recorded at the State Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta, where the premises was locked.

At the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), the strike recorded a hundred percent compliance as members of the Non-Academics Staff Union (NASU) put the university under lock and keys, thereby preventing the lecturers, both from the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian University (SSANU), the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria University (ASU) and the students out of the institution.

Our Correspondent also observed that all the commercial bank workers complied with the NLC’s directive to stay off work, but few of them, like the Zenith Bank among others were busy carrying out skeletal services to their customers.

Sources within the banking sector in Ogun State however, confided in LEADERSHIP that management of some of the money deposit banks placed their workers on a “stand-by” in case of any change in the arrangements.

Meanwhile, the situation is different at the State Secretariat Complex in Oke Mosan area of Abeokuta where civil servants ignored the NLC’s detective and reported for work.

LEADERSHIP also observed that the motor transport unions, who are all an affiliate members of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) refused to join the warning strike, as commercial drivers, tricycle riders as well as the commercial cyclists were all busy with their transportation businesses across the state.