Union Grounds Legislative Activities in Yobe State

The Protesting workers today at the Yobe State House of Assembly Complex

From JOE Hemba

Yobe State members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) joined their collogues across the country to seal off the state House of Assembly.

The Union Members locked the gate of the main entrance into the Assembly complex grounding legislative activities in compliance with the directives from their National Executives to embark on indefinite strike action over the non-implementation of the Financial Autonomy act of 2018 and Presidential Order 10, 2020 by the Federal Government.

Our correspondent who monitored the action of the members observed that member of the State House of Assembly were calling some of the union members to confirmed if the gate of the House was truly closed.

No members of the state House of Assembly was on ground to address the protesting workers, but investigation revealed that even the members of the House of Assembly are in support of the state.

The Chairman of PASSAN Yobe State Zanna Ali told  ImpactOnlineNigeria  that they were complying with the directives of their bosses from the National body.

“We took this action because we want the federal government to implement the financial autonomy. We joined the strike because it is a nationwide strike, we want our demands met, the financial autonomy is constitutional.

The protesters

“This is all that we want; it’s almost two years now the President assented to the Bill and we are yet to see anything. There will be no sitting today because we locked the legislative entrance, there’s no sitting today.

 The Union  leaders disclosed that they were left with no option than to embark of the strike action after exhausting all other options with the Federal government.

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