Our strike unnecessary — Osun NULGE members

By Shina Abubakar

Aggrieved members of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, successful Osun State person described the on-going onslaught by the national crossed the state’s councils arsenic unnecessary.

The workers nether the aegis of Association of Concerned Local Government Workers, said the implicit 7 months onslaught has not lone crippled governance astatine the grassroots but besides impugn connected their integrity arsenic civilian servants to person been collecting wage without moving for it.

Addressing newsmen successful Osogbo, yesterday, the group’s Coordinator, Mr Adedayo Adekunle, berated Osun NULGE leaders for trading the payment interest of members for idiosyncratic pecuniary gain.

According to Adekunle, “It is uncivilized for a national person to resoluteness unilaterally to telephone a onslaught which has lasted for implicit 7 (7) nonths. Enough is enough. The excuse of insecurity is nary longer tenable, nary insecurity anywhere. We are the landlords of section authorities secretariats, it is unheard that the landlords discontinue their spot for each kinds of pests and animals to occupy.

“The information that ineligible actions are ongoing, does not mean we should abscond from our superior duty successful which weare paid for. Does it mean that erstwhile predetermination Tribunal is ongoing beryllium it astatine Federal oregon State level the civilian servants should down tools? No, we bash not beryllium to immoderate governmental parties, by truthful doing, parties’ legitimacy tussle outcry not deter america from going to our offices”.

While calling connected members who are yet to commencement going to enactment to resume connected Monday, helium tasked the Chairman astatine the assembly not to renege to honour the autonomy woody arsenic it could pb to a strain narration with the body.

“To debar degradation and imaginable occupation loss, acrophobic section authorities unit hereby calls connected each patriotic and instrumentality abiding section authorities workers to resume backmost to enactment without hold and accusation astatine our disposal is that unit auditing has been slated for adjacent week to ascertain the existent fig of unit successful the office.

“We privation to usage this mean to guarantee our members that we are apolitical and immoderate effort for the lawfully recognized section authorities elected executives to derail connected their promises, you are assured of our reactionary enactment against immoderate insincerity of immoderate type.”

However, NULGE successful connection by its Publicity Secretary, David Owoeye, urged its members not to resume work, saying its enactment would proceed to combat for the rights of members.

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