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Nigeria - Members of the Non-Accademic Staff Union, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, have suspended a crippling strike they embarked upon about three weeks ago.
The strike was to protest the alleged non-payment of their 64-month hazard allowance.
In a bid to show their grievances, the workers paralysed activities on the university campus by closing the library and the senate building. They also blocked the major entrances and refused to supply light and water to the campus.
As the crisis deepened, the authorities of the university closed the school and later ordered students and the workers to resume in less than a week.
To also prevent further protests, no fewer than three Armoured Police Carriers were positioned close to the university’s gate with about 100 policemen seen at the school’s gate on Monday.
The management, through a press release by the university’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Biodun Olarewaju, last Thursday, had vowed to punish any worker who did not resume on Tuesday (today).
However the strike has been called off following a promise by the management to pay them palliatives.
Reports say the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, brokered peace between the school management and the aggrieved workers at a meeting yesterday.
“We have agreed to suspend the strike following the Ooni’s intervention. Our members will be resuming on Friday because we still need to put some things in place," Chairman of NASU, OAU chapter, Wole Odewunmi, said.
The strike was to protest the alleged non-payment of their 64-month hazard allowance.
In a bid to show their grievances, the workers paralysed activities on the university campus by closing the library and the senate building. They also blocked the major entrances and refused to supply light and water to the campus.
As the crisis deepened, the authorities of the university closed the school and later ordered students and the workers to resume in less than a week.
To also prevent further protests, no fewer than three Armoured Police Carriers were positioned close to the university’s gate with about 100 policemen seen at the school’s gate on Monday.
The management, through a press release by the university’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Biodun Olarewaju, last Thursday, had vowed to punish any worker who did not resume on Tuesday (today).
However the strike has been called off following a promise by the management to pay them palliatives.
Reports say the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, brokered peace between the school management and the aggrieved workers at a meeting yesterday.
“We have agreed to suspend the strike following the Ooni’s intervention. Our members will be resuming on Friday because we still need to put some things in place," Chairman of NASU, OAU chapter, Wole Odewunmi, said.
