Labour in Rivers denies obtaining bribe to go on strike
PORT HARCOURT — TRADE Union congress, TUC, Rivers State chapter, has described as untrue, allegations in some quarters that labour unions were offered N100 million by the state government to go on strike over the closure of Obio/ Akpor Local Government Area secretariat by the Police.
It will be recalled that TUC and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, embarked on a two-day warning strike early in the week, to press home their call for the Police to allow work resume at Obio/Akpor council secretariat.
The state Chairman of TUC, Mr. Chika Unuegbu, who spoke to journalists at the Rivers State delegates’ conference of TUC Women Commission election in Port Harcourt, said labour had a meeting with the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, after the warning strike, where they re-echoed their demand.
According to him, they made it clear to the Police boss that they were not an interested party in the political crisis that had engulfed the council, adding that all they wanted was for Police to allow workers resume, so that their salaries for April and May could be paid.
He said they told the Commissioner that staff of the council were the worst affected by the action of the Police.
Unuegbu said NLC had also written to the state government before the warning strike to appoint the Head of Local Government Administration of the council to run the place pending the determination of the suits filed by the Caretaker Committee and the suspended elected officials of the council.
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