Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday called on members and civil society groups in Lagos State to come out en-masse on Tuesday morning to begin the two-day protest in solidarity with striking lecturers.
Mrs Funmi Sessi, state chairman of NLC gave the directive at a stakeholders’ meeting at the union’s secretariat in Yaba, Lagos state.
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Sessi said that the exercise was ready to hold on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the nationwide action.
This is despite an appeal by the Federal Government that the NLC shelve the planned nationwide protest.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been at loggerheads with the Federal Government since Feb. 14 over the failure to honour some past agreements, among others.
The disagreement has kept students of most public universities at home for the past five months.
Some other unions in the university system are also on strike due to disagreements with the Federal Government for different reasons.
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Sessi, however, directed all sectors including health, electricity and aviation to shut down operations and join the solidarity protest in support of the striking workers.
She stated:
We will be converging as early as 6:30 a.m. at Ikeja and take off by 7.00 a.m. to deliver a letter to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu in Alausa.
The protest is to support ASUU in the ongoing strike, so we call on all affiliate members to come out en masse.
Sessi called on Lagos state-owned tertiary institutions to also join in the protests.
She added:
We are going to mobilise our members and be fully on the street.
Sessi said that electricity workers would be part of the protest, but advised nurses to attend to only emergency cases.
She assured that the union had adopted measures to ensure that the protest was not hijacked.
