Imo Workers Embark On Indefinite Strike

Rochas Okorocha

Workers in Imo State will from today go on an indefinite industrial action owing to the unwillingness of the state government to fulfill its own part of the recent agreement it freely entered with labour, over the backlog of unpaid salaries and allowances owed workers.

According to a public announcement broadcast on Radio Nigeria, Heartland FM and Hot FM, signed by all the labour leaders in the state, all workers are ordered to remain in their respective homes until otherwise directed by the union leaders.

“Governor Rochas Okorocha chose to travel to the United States of America, when he should have stayed at home to resolve the brewing labour crisis that has now hit the state,” a civil servant who begged not yo be named told Vanguard.

The worker also accused Okorocha of double standards. He wondered why he should send his son overseas to study, when his administration not only prides itself with running free education at all levels, but had also been claiming that Imo State University, compete with other universities across the world.