Leadership Crisis Rocks Oyo NLC

The Oyo State chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is now in total disarray following the alleged dissolution of the congress and setting up of a caretaker committee, even as the Public Service Joint Negotiating Council  has rejected the salary table presented by the state government.

The leadership of the Oyo NLC has been dissolved and a caretaker committee headed by Comrade Bayo Akande a school teacher set up to oversee the congress activities pending the ratification of the dissolution by the National Executive Council of the NLC.

But the state government in  reaction described the caretaker committee as illegal and unknown to it and to the law.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on media, Dr Festus Adedayo, warned the caretaker committee that the full weight of the law would be applied to anyone who breached the peace in Oyo State.

The Action Congress in Nigeria (CAN) in the same vein, condemned the purported dissolution of the NLC Oyo State Executive in the party’s publicity secretary, Mr Dauda Kolawale, in a statement criticised what he described as the action of some over ambitious individuals in overthrowing a constituted authority overnight to mislead the generality of the workforce.

Meanwhile, the Public Service Joint Negotiating Council has rejected the salary table released by the state government on the strength of the agitations of the workers.

In a statement the councils chairman and secretary Comrades Nurudeen Arowolo and Siyandade Olojede, explained that the civil servants in the state would not accept anything less that what was approved by the Federal Government Minimum wage. The Joint Council boss advised the state government to commence the immediate implementation of the approved minimum wage or face unavoidable Labour crisis.

The council assured Civil Servants of its determination to ensure that justice and equity prevailed and the state government implemented the new salary scale as approved.