Labour backs workers' strike in n Ekiti, Ondo

In a statement issued on Thursday, June 2, 2016, signed by the National Chairman,Comrade Kiri Mohammed Shuaibu, the union said the workers have endured enough since they have no other source of income to sustain their families.

The Council said the main contention that ignited the strike actions were failure of the governments of the two states to pay monthly salaries of their workers for five months.


According to Kiri, the Joint Council condemns in its totality the failure of governments‎ of Ekiti and Ondo States to pay salaries and urged them to live up to expectation in fulfilling their contractual obligations of paying workers salaries.