Akinwale Aboluwade
As the World Water Day was being celebrated on Monday, the aggrieved staff of the Oyo State Water Corporation, in conjunction with the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, shut down the state secretariat gates to prevent free vehicular movements.
Activities within the state secretariat was affected for several hours as the angry workers protested against the non-payment of deductions and acrued allowances that are due to them.
The placards bearing workers said that the Monday rally marked the commencement of an indefinite strike being embarked upon following the refusal of the state government to acede their demands after the expiration of the concluded one-week warning strike.
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Published 14 February 2021
Early in January, a torrent of bad news started emanating from the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. The stories were about kidnapping, attacks by killer herdsmen and destruction of farmlands across Ibarapaland.
Incidentally, those attacks were on the heels of the alarm earlier raised by Governor ‘Seyi Makinde when he declared in Saki, a key town in Oke Ogun axis of the state in December 2020, that some criminal elements were crossing the international borders into the forests around Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa. He said that the state would not allow criminal elements seize the state and terrorise its people.
The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Service Employees (AUPCTRE) has announced the suspension of its industrial action over unpaid arrears deduction.
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Early in January, a torrent of bad news started emanating from the Ibarapa axis of Oyo State. The stories were about kidnapping, attacks by killer-herdsmen and destructions of farmlands across Ibarapaland.
Incidentally, those attacks were on the heels of the alarm earlier raised by Governor‘Seyi Makinde when he declared in Saki, a key town in Oke Ogun axis of the state in December 2020 that some criminal elements were crossing the international borders into the forests around Oke-Ogun and Ibarapa. He said that the state would not allow criminal elements seize hold of the state and terrorise its people.