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NEMA officials in Minna go on indefinite strike

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-NEMA officials declare indefinite strike action to push home their claims.

-The workers are protesting the non payment of their work entitlements and several other benefits.

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Workers under the aegis of the Association of Senior Civil Servant of Nigeria and Nigeria Civil Service Union of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), have declared an indefinite strike action over the failure of the management to meet its demands.

The strike action was confirmed by the treasurer of ASCSN, Hajiya Hasfat Shuiabu, in a telephone interview on Thursday.

The members of staff displayed various placards with inscriptions such as “Mustapha Maihaja must go”, “Mustapha we are tired of aluta”, “pay our claims or resign, enough is enough”.

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Others read, “No hazard allowance, no life assurance cover”, “Who will die next”, “No promotion exercise”, “Give us training it is statutory”, “Maihaja is an electrician, we are humanitarian”.

Hajia Shuiabu further explained that the union had embarking on the strike, written several letters, and issued 21, 14, and seven days ultimatum respectively to NEMA over its apparent lack of concern to cater to the legitimate claims of the staff.

She also decried the montly unauthorised payments to certain categories of staff without due process.

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According to her, the office of the President, Vice President, Head of Service, President of Senate, Minister of Labour, House of Representatives Department of State Services, Army and other critical stakeholders were all copied in letters issued by the workers’ union.

“The national secretariat wrote to declare three days warning strike and the Head of Service wrote the Minister of Labour to intervene.

“We had a meeting with labour minister and reached an agreement with a time frame of two weeks to meet our demand.

“The two weeks elapses and nothing was done another three weeks was given for payment of our allowances which elapsed on Oct. 17, that is why we are embarking on strike,” she said.