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Strike
Maiduguri, Feb. 14, 2017 (NAN) The Borno Government on Tuesday appealed to Ramat Polytechnic workers to end the indefinite strike they embarked upon.
Alhaji Adamu Biu, a Permanent Commissioner in the state’s Civil Service Commission told a news conference in Maiduguri that government was ready to meet the demands of the workers.
On Feb. 13, the institution’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics directed their members to proceed on indefinite strike.
The unions said the strike followed the government’s refusal to meet their demands.
Biu, who is also the chairman of the Technical Committee on Harmonisation of the Disagreement between the Joint Union of Tertiary Institutions and the State Government, described the strike as unnecessary.
According to him, action has already been taken on most of the demands.
“I want to appeal to the unions to shelve the strike as it is unnecessary,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes him as saying.
“Our committee was set up to look at the areas of friction between government and the unions on the biometric data capture of workers as well as rectify the problems found.
“We have agreed on a number of issues like the immediate payment of all workers already captured in the system.
“We have also agreed that all those not captured should be captured immediately as requested by the unions.”
He said also that since government had not conceded to the demand to raise the retirement age of workers from 60 to 65 years, all those who stayed behind would not be punished. (NAN)
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Edited by Silas Nwoha