Nigeria Labour Sounds Warning To Kaduna State Governor Against Maltreatement Of Teachers.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Kaduna State chapter has affirmed that the labour movement will never be intimidated by tactics of blackmail being deployed by the state government to underscore the successes recorded by the peaceful rally organized by the group in protest against Governor Nasiru el-Rufai’s anticipated sacking of the 21,000 teachers in the state.

“We, therefore, affirm that the Labour Movement will never be intimidated and it will indeed continue to play its historical role of the conscience of society and protector of workers’ rights using all means available to it within the confines of the law,” Kaduna State Chairman of NLC, Comrade Adamu Ango said in a statement in Kaduna.

However,the Kaduna state government as usual, instead of addressing the core issues relative to the impasse between it and the labour movement has resorted to crude propaganda and diversionary tactics by trying to depict a rally organized and attended by the leadership of the entire labour movement in Nigeria as an agitation by 21,000 unqualified teachers.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the rally held in Kaduna on 8th November, 2017 was peaceful and same was held in exercise of our members constitutional rights as guaranteed under section 35(1) and 40 of the 1999 constitution which is the grundnorm and all other laws drives their potency there from.

The events at the Kaduna state House of Assembly after the rally by the Labour Movement cannot be attributed to the NLC, and same is a replica of the sad events at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, secretariat, Kaduna where supporters of the state government openly attacked law abiding citizens who were there to address a press conference and unfortunately nobody has been prosecuted or is being prosecuted for their participation in the dastardly act,” he lamented.

Labour was emphatic of the fact that the demonstration staged on the streets of kaduna by pupils in public schools was not orchestrated by the Labour Movement.