The Nigeria Labour Congress said, on Thursday, that it would lead workers in both public and private sectors to embark on a state-wide strike and withdraw their services over the mass sack of workers by the state government. The NLC president decried the decision of Governor Nasir El-Rufai to sack about 4, 000 workers, adding that those sacked are mostly from the 23 local government areas in the state. We thought that it is high time the workers also exercise their right to protect the rights of workers that are in Kaduna and their families. In fact, it is something every Nigerian must condemn at this time and period that workers will be sent out in this manner. The NLC president added: “The entire working class in Nigeria have condemned the massive sack of thousands of workers in Kaduna.

Source: Nigerian Tribune April 22, 2021 18:00 UTC