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The leadership of organised labour wishes to appreciate Kogi workers for their continuous steadfastness and courage. We are indeed overwhelmed by the level of your support for the emancipation struggle about to commence on Friday 22nd September 2017. The Lord God Almighty is our banner of victory.
Comrades, as predicted, the government has began her antics of threats and intimidation of workers, brandishing the weapons of sack and the over used but ineffective ‘no-work-no-pay’ slogan, all of which have no place in any civilised setting. Is it true that Kogi State government is threatening to proscribe NLC and TUC if workers embark on strike come 22nd September 2017?
As we all know, whoever that is down does not fear fall anyone, this government has brought workers down to the lowest level and as such we fear neither fall of sack nor non-payment of salary. We encourage you to discountenance all the threats and intimidation being dished out by the officers of this government and remain focused and determined to carry this struggle to its logical conclusion. Be resolute and defend your jobs now or never.
We urge you to disregard all the manouvering of government aimed at using flimsy and irrelevant innuendoes to take attentions away from the core foundation of our agitation. We are resolute in saying NO to the casualization of the Kogi state workforce through the clock-in-clock-out policy, we REJECT completely the attempt of government to use a hoarse contributory pension scheme to further impoverish workers, and we INSIST that government pay the salaries/pension of workers/pensioners who have been denied salaries/pension for the past 21 months and other categories of arrears ranging from 2 to 13 months and we DEMAND the stoppage of percentage payment of salaries to primary school teachers and local government workers. We therefore call on government to channel her energies towards meeting all the demands of workers and stop dissipating energy on the status of signatories of our bulletins.
For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to make it abundantly clear to government that nothing, other than the meeting of all our demands will stop Kogi workers from down tooling as from Friday 22nd September 2017.
Directives
We urge you as usual to continue to discountenance the threat and intimidation of government, remain law abiding, be prayerful, be counting down to Friday 22nd September 2017 as you await further directives.
Signed by
Comrade Olakunle Faniyi
NLC Secretary
Comrade Kolawole James
TUC Secretary
Comrade I. A. Abubakar
JPSNC Secretary
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