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Last Updated: Friday, November 12th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ekiti workers begin strike action By David Atalese Special Correspondent, Ado-Ekiti Ahead of next week�s nationwide strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), civil servants in Ekiti State on Thursday began industrial action following the inability of the state government to meet their demands for better conditions of service. The civil servants under the aegis of the state Joint Negotiating Council (JNC) had given a fourteen-day ultimatum to the state government within which it should meet their demands. In a swift reaction, the state government set up a committee to meet the council in order to avert the strike but the meeting was deadlocked on Tuesday. Among other things the civil servants are demanding for the implementation of the monetisation policy as spelt out by the federal government. They are also demanding the payment of their 2003 leave bonuses, car and housing loans, stressing that if the government could purchase cars for permanent secretaries, nothing should stop government from doing the same for them. Daily Independent learnt that the meeting between the two parties was dead locked as the state governor, Peter Ayodele Fayose, refused to shift ground on virtually all the demands of the workers from his original positions. A statement by JNC chairman, Kayode Ogundele, called on the state civil servants to embark on indefinite strike pending the time the governor would see reason with them and meet their demands. But Fayose told reporters that he could not meet their demands after he had paid their outstanding leave bonuses between 2001 and 2003 and he was ready to pay the remaining 2004 leave bonus in batches but not at once as demanded by the workers. He said that he refused to sign an agreement with them because it would amount to deceit. �I cannot sign agreement that I will not be able to implement,�he added. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright© 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By

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