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| Governor of Plateau State, Jonah David Jang |
The national leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress
(NLC) has given the Governor of Plateau State, Jonah David Jang a ten-day
ultimatum to resolve the local government workers’ crisis in the state or have
the state paralysed with total withdrawal of workers’ services in the state.
Delivering the position of the national body of NLC in a
press conference in Jos yesterday, the state Chairman of the union, Comrade
Jibrin Bancir, said “the NLC/TUC at their Central Working Committee meeting
held on Tuesday November 12, 2012
resolved among other things that a ten-day ultimatum be issued effective from
November 30, 2012, to elapse on the December 9, 2012, by midnight, after which
if the impasse is not resolved, all workers in the state, including private
organization will embark on total withdrawal of services and general protest in
the state.
“And all the affiliates union to NLC and TUC will relocate
their National Headquarters to Jos to see to the success of the struggle.”
The union, while calling on all workers to be resolute, and
to continue to mobilise towards the strike, however said statesmen on the
Plateau are being consulted to prevail upon Jang to end the impasse before the
ultimatum elapses.
Recounting the losses, Bancir said “the government of Jonah
Jang has turned against the people that voted him to power; citizens have died,
children have lost two consecutive terms in primary schools, nobody graduated
from primary school to JSS1 in Plateau public schools, and there is general
economic down town and poverty, but the government is happy carrying out
senseless propaganda.
“Organised Labour calls on the state government to have
sober reflection over the injury and death it has already inflicted on the
citizens and find a lasting solution to the impasse.”
On its part, the state government has alerted the public of
attempts to hijack the strike by some political forces for blackmail, mischief
and violence, appealing to “parents, guardians, and community leaders not to
allow their children, wards and subjects to be used for any act of mischief.”
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