In light of the Monday sit-at-home strike, Governor Chukwuma Soludo has been requested by Emeka Nwafor, Chairman of the Anambra State NLC Chapter, to provide vehicles and security for employees travelling to the state capital of Awka for work.
He claimed that by doing this, employees would feel secure and at ease to forgo Mondays spent at home and instead continue to report to work on Mondays as instructed by Governor Soludo.
Nwafor noted that it would be suicide for workers coming from areas like Ihiala, Onitsha, and Aguata to board commercial vehicles on Mondays to travel to Awka and return after the day’s work without assured security arrangements by the government in response to Soludo’s May Day rally directive that every civil servant in the state must going forwards be coming to work on Mondays or be prepared to have their salaries cut.
“If the Governor wants all the workers to be coming to work on Mondays, he should provide buses to convey workers to Awka every Monday, then provide security to lead and protect the workers at the Secretariat until the day is over, and the vehicles would equally take the workers back to their respective destinations at the end of the day,” the State NLC boss said.
Commercial vehicles continue to be wary of driving on Mondays for fear of being attacked by thugs enforcing the unofficial sit-at-home rule.
Paul Uwaeze, the chairman of the Nigerian Civil Service Union (NCSU), also spoke during the debate. He suggested that the government upgrade all of the outdated office furniture and supplies to increase workers’ productivity and stop requiring workers to hire contractors to do their payroll calculations.
The state chairman of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, Chinedu Nwabueze, requested assistance from the state government in improving their services in the state in each of his speeches.
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Comrade Nwabueze mentioned that in order to save lives and property, the association has established ambulance services for accident victims along federal and state highways.
Dr. Austin Udeozor, the chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers’ (NURTW) South-east Zonal, pleaded with Soludo to acknowledge them as collaborators in the state’s progress, particularly at this time when the state government is looking for ways to boost its internally generated revenue (IGR).
It is quite ironic, says Udeozor, that NURTW operates in all but one of the federation’s states—Anambra. The Agberos are not us. In addition to generating money for the government, we keep motor park security.
