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Govt Business Still Paralysed From Agaju Madugba in Kaduna Activities at government ministries in Kaduna still remained paralysed yesterday, second day of the strike action by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) even as renewed scarcity of petroleum products hit the area. Although some of the major petroleum products marketers re-adjusted their fuel pump prices to between N42.00 and N44.00 per litre, the product was not available. But the independent marketers still sold above N50.00 per litre, where available. However, at the various black markets in the metropolis a gallon of fuel sold for between N350.00 and N500, from the price of between N250.00 and N280 last week. Defying a directive of the Kaduna state government for resumption of duties, civil servants had continued to sustain the stay at home order from the NLC. THISDAY checks at some of the ministries showed that only Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries as well as some other senior officers reported for work. A statement from the Head of Service, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha, had on Wednesday night threatened that workers who failed to return to their duty posts would lose their wages for the period of absence. But the state council of the NLC condemned government's position, noting that the state government was not the target of the labour action. In a press statement, the NLC chairman, Jonathan Musa, said "we wish to inform all workers and indeed all lovers of our nascent democracy that the strike will continue until we receive a firm commitment from the Federal Government to obey the court ruling of 8th June 2004." In a related development, the Kaduna polytechnic chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) yesterday decried what it described as Federal Government�s insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians. In a press statement, ASUP chairman, Yusuf Yakubu, said that, "government lacks cogent reasons for the like in prices of petroleum products since virtually no aspect of the economy has made any progress within the five years of democratic rule." Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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