AGENE GODWIN, Benin
The leadership of Organized labour, Edo state Chapter,Tuesday declared that it will go ahead to embark on an indefinite strike action on Wednesday, irrespective of the purported industrial court order, restraining them.
It described the court ruling as a black market injunction and urged its members, members of the Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, and the coalition of the willing not to succumb to threats in some quarters.
State chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Emmanuel Ademokun disclose this while briefing the Media on Wednesday at the state Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Benin City after meeting with members of the affiliate unions.
According to him, “that order was a black market injunction and we are not going to abide by it,” insisting that
the strike will commences Wednesday.
“As regards the Industrial Court, we have never respected the order. The court restrained us (Labour) from using the stadium. Oshiomhole was then the leader. We are going ahead to implement the strike and a directive has already been given from the national headquarters that the strike will commence. There is no going back.”
As part of measures to sustain the protest, he threatened to seal up defaulting petrol stations, banks and other such places.
“We are going to seal up petrol stations across the state and any petrol station that flouts that order, we will mobilise and dispense their fuel at N87 per litre.
“The fight now is not for us Comrades only, but for the entire Nigerians,” he said.
