Governor Wike averts unprecedented public protest, reopens sealed NLC Secretariat

* Mobilized  crowd of workers throng reopened NLC Secretariat, send messages to state Govt. with anti-Labour tendencies

BY IBRAHIM BAKARE

Rivers State Government, in early hours of today, reopened the state NLC Secretariat it unlawfully sealed since February 3,2020,as part of the implementation of agreement between the Organized labour and the State Government in late hours of Monday. 

At the Secretariat,Comrade Beatrice Ituboh, the State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress,NLC,said the reopening of Secretariat is part of the immediate implementation of the agreement reached with the Rivers State for which was presided over by Governor Nyesom Wike.

Beatrice Ituboh said the NLC  suspended the strike and the prop it because the Rivers State g decided to bend backwards to listen to Labour and meet the demands of workers in State.

Reopened sealed NLC at Igboukwu street, D-line in Port Harcourt

Ayuba Wabba, Beatrice Ituboh (middle) addressing workers at reopened Secretariat that was sealed since February 3,2020.

Cross section of mobilized who thronged NLC Secretariat.

On the party of the President of ,Ayuba Wanna, said one important part of the agreement is the immediate commencement for the payment of workers pension and gratuity, which has been owed them 2012 their consequential adjustments among others are liken to winning a war without throwing stones.

Meanwhile, despite the calling off of the street protest,an unprecedented crowd of member NLC and it’s affiliate unions already mobilized thronged the reopened NLC Secretariat earlier sealed by the Rivers State Government.

Ayuba Wabba said it was agreed that there should be a standing tripartite committee that should be there to trash out all labour issues.

He expressed confidence that all the Eight-points agreed will be diligently implemented.  

An NLC official said the Governor Wike averted “mother of all labour protests in Port Harcourt and took sharp decision to avert it without clinging on Court injunction”