Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello was humbled by locked up, empty offices in Lokoja, the state capital.
Bello, who visited offices in government ministries and agencies in Lokoja on Monday, saw first hand the 100% compliance by civil servants to the strike directive from labour leaders.
All offices visited by the governor were silent like graveyards.
This humbling on-the-spot assessment by Bello was at variance with the reports published in some national dailies that workers in Kogi state shunned the strike called by labour leaders.
In the course of Governor Bello’s tour to ministries in Lokoja, it was gathered that even commissioners and many political appointees were not in office.
Bystanders wondered if the commissioners and his political appointees are also on strike.
Some of the ministries visited by the governor are Ministry of health, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Graphic newspaper, Radio Koogi, State Secretariat’s, Ministry of Education, Agriculture amongst others.
Governor Bello, in a letter through his Secretary to the State Government, Folashade Arike Ayoade had threatened workers with no work no pay if they eventually comply with the strike.
Meanwhile, a leaked audio from a government function is going viral in the state. In the leaked audio, the Chief of Staff to Kogi State Governor, Edward Onoja was heard telling the state NLC Chairman, Comrade Onuh Edoka, that it is natural for him to go for the labour leader’s head if he feels he is against the government.
“Onuh Edoka, you are from Olamaboro local government, so by virtue of where we come from, we are brothers. We are Christians.
“I recall a time you knew i was going for your head because i felt you were trying to jeopardise a vision that i believe in, knowingly or unknowingly, but i was going for your head. It was natural, even though you are my brother,” he said.
Just yesterday, labour leaders in the state raised alarm that their lives are under threat from agents of government because of the ongoing strike action.
It was reliably gathered that some of the union leaders are currently in hiding because of these threats.
Credit: Daily Post
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