NLC Nassarawa, Factions and Strike

Last week Friday, NLC Nassarawa was in the news. First was the information that they were proceeding on the planned strke action, then another news that the strike action has been shelved. Then the information that the State Chairman, NLC, has been suspended and strike commenced.

All over salary demands that was made of the government.The workers had earlier given the state government up till May 11 to meet their demands or face an industrial action.

With conflicting information on Friday,the NLC Nassarawa state is not having the best of times.While workers have embarked on the strike, the suspended chairman still insists he is the chairman.

The factions are, the Umar Bala faction and the   Abdullahi Adeka faction, who is quoted saying " “I want to assure the workers of Nasarawa State that they should remain dogged, they should remain loyal to the presiding officer led by Abdullahi Adeka. I still remain the chairman of NLC in Nasarawa State and I am not shaken by any group of persons that can just sit down and think that they can plan a palace coup that will not yield any fruitful result.”

Leveraging on the split in the union,the Head of Service has issued a press statement instructing workers to go about their normal duties and ignore any directive from the Umar Bala-led faction.
“It is hereby reiterated that any civil servants that do not adhere to this directive and fails to report to duty will be held personally liable for his/her action,” he added.
“Permanent secretaries and chief executives of commissions, boards and parastatals are therefore to ensure compliance by opening and maintaining attendance register for their staff and submit same at the close of work on a daily basis to the permanent secretary, civil service secretariat, office of the head of civil service as any absenteeism will be treated as abscondment.”

The performance of the strike shall be monitored to observe the level
compliance