Union Decries Dispersal Of Protesting Workers

President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Comrade Shehu Mohammed, has faulted the dispersal of protesting workers of the Federal Ministry of Finance who embarked connected a peaceful protestation against the government’s anti-worker activities past Wednesday, saying the enactment was an embarrassment to the country.

Mohammed, who lamented employers’ anti-labour practices, said the unprovoked onslaught connected the workers during a peaceful protestation was besides against the renewed anticipation docket of the contiguous government.

It should beryllium recalled that information operatives dispersed protesting Ministry workers exercising their morganatic rights and demanding outgo of their outstanding arrears.

ASCSN, successful a connection signed by the secretary-general of ASCSN, Comrade Joshua Apebo, urged the authorities to enactment present and code the unfair attraction of Nigerian workers

The Association frowned astatine the hold successful the payments, contempt each efforts by the Association to spot to the payments.

Apebo truthful called for the outgo of the arrears now, successful enactment with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s renewed anticipation docket to code each issues concerning workers with fairness.

It besides called connected the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to supply contiguous fiscal backing to wage each outstanding entitlements owed to Education Officers and different nationalist servants without further delay.

The Association said these entitlements are not constricted to salaries, promotion, and elongation arrears but see 28 days successful lieu, allowances, DTA, and outgo to Education Officers who were dislocated from unity schools successful the North-East and different areas. It said specified would make jobs astatine the directorate level.

Recalling assorted efforts made to guarantee allowances are paid, Comrade Apebo disclosed that the request has been presented astatine aggregate Annual General Meetings of the Federal Unity Schools successful the past 5 years.

“Several resolutions were passed and forwarded to the Federal Ministry of Education. In January 2025, the national issued an ultimatum to the Federal Ministry of Education to instrumentality each the demands, but they were not adhered to,’’ helium said.