Poor Welfare: NEMA Staff On Nationwide Strike

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BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – Following what it described as the “uncooperative attitude and dictatorial tendencies” of the Director General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Engineer Mustapha Maijhaja, Staff of the agency on Thursday commenced an indefinite nationwide strike to demand for better conditions of service. 

In a memo to the NEMA Branch Chairman of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the union members noted that the strike became necessary as NEMA management led by Maijhaja has shown total disregard for staff welfare and other matters.

The letter, signed by the Secretary-General, ASCSN, Isaac Ojenmhenike, was addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives and other senior government officials.

In the letter, the Union said based on the expiration of the agreement signed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, NEMA management and the Union, it became clear that the NEMA does not want to comply.

Some of the placards pasted at the gates of NEMA offices reads “Mustapha Maihaja must go”; “Mustapha we are tired of aluta, pay our claims or resign, enough is enough”; “No hazard allowance, no life assurance cover”; “Who will die next”; “No promotion exercise”; “Give us training, it is statutory”; and “Maihaja is an electrician, we are humanitarians.”

Accordingly, the Union directed its members nationwide to embark on an indefinite strike, saying that further information would be communicated to them in due course.

The Union said that the current action would disrupt the ongoing distribution of relief materials to victims of Boko Haram victims in the various Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the North Eastern part of the country.

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