The organised labour in Kogi state
says it has suspended discussion with government on the ongoing strike
following the gruesome murder of a labour leader, Mallam Abdulmumuni Yakubu in
Okene yesterday.
Chairman of the Nigeria Labour
Congress , Comrade Onuh Edoka and his TUC counterpart, Comrade Ranti Matthew
Ojo gave the indication in a statement in Lokoja on Thursday.
According to them, the
negotiation which was supposed to continue with government on Thursday has been
suspended to enable labour leaders mourn their slain colleague.
They said the late Abdulmumuni
Yakubu who was until his death the branch chairman of Non Academic Staff Union
of Secondary Schools (NASU) at the Kogi State Science Technology and Technical
Education Board, was gruesomely murdered alongside his friend in his house in
Okene yesterday.
According to the organised labour
, the murder of the unionist was a confirmation of the fear that lives of
labour leaders in the state were daily threatened because of their agitation
for better welfare package for civil servants in the state.
They said the labour leaders will
return to negotiating table as soon as there is full assurances of their safety
and that of the members of their families.
The organised labour condemned
the murder of the union leader and called on Kogi state police command to
urgently unravel his killers , saying “the organised labour in the state will
fight on to ensure that his death would not go the way of many unresolved
murder cases in Kogi state.”
They urged workers to remained
steadfast and prayerful for God will surely intervene in their matter shortly.
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