The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) will today commence a three-day warning strike to protest the Senate’s decision to remove autonomy for local government areas.
The Senate had recently voted against autonomy for local government areas in its ongoing efforts to review the constitution.
However, the General Secretary of NULGE Comrade Joshua Irapakob, who addressed the media at the union’s headquarters in Abuja, commended the House of Representatives for taking a “bold step” by voting for local government autonomy.
Irapakob said that despite the good work done by the House of Representatives, “the union will still go ahead with its 3-day warning strike from Monday 29th to Wednesday 31st July, 2013 as a means of registering Nigerians’ displeasure about the Senate act of betrayal of people’s trust and mandate.”
He said the union had already sensitized and mobilized its members across the country for the strike saying “we had a meeting on the 23rd of this month, and we all agreed that we should embark on a three-day warning strike to press home our demand.
“We had issued a communiqué and equally requested the states’ presidents to go back to their respective states and mobilise our members for this particular action,” he noted.
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