The protest by Oyo State workers and pensioners under the umbrella of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) has enter its fifth day over a number of demands from the state government.
Oyo State protesting workers have vowed to observe the Friday Juma’at service at the entrance of the Secretariat and will not stop until the state governor, Seyi Makinde addresses them.
The protest by Oyo State workers and pensioners under the umbrella of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) has enter its fifth day over a number of demands from the state government.
Workers in the state had on Monday protested in Ibadan, the state capital, against the failure of the Governor Seyi Makinde-led government to offset their unpaid allowances and provide palliatives for them.
The protesters shut down the state Secretariat at Agodi.
It was gathered that the aggrieved state workers locked the state secretariat and demanded an upward review of pension allowances and payment of salary deduction, saying in one of the placards they carried that “Our full salary is not enough for our transportation to our place of work.”
It was reported that those who are carrying out the protest are workers and pensioners from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and other affiliates.
Their union leaders and workers are also demanding payment of leave bonuses, gratuities to retirees who have stagnated since the year 2021 and release of promotion letters for the years 2021 and 2022, Politics Nigeria reports.
It was however gathered that no government official had addressed the protesting workers at the time of filing this report.
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