The Parliamentary Employees Affiliation of Nigeria (PASAN), backed by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has taken a dramatic step by reducing off water provide to the Senate and the Home of Representatives. That is a part of a broader, indefinite strike that has now gripped the complete Nationwide Meeting.

As of early this morning, entry to the Nationwide Meeting was barred, with entrances and exits sealed off by two coastal buses strategically positioned by PASAN members. This act of defiance is in response to the federal authorities’s steadfast refusal to barter a considerable enhance within the minimal wage, at present set at N60,000.

The strike, now permeating each nook of governmental operations, has seen a pointy halt in not solely water but in addition electrical energy provides to the important buildings of the legislative arm. 

This shutdown has successfully crippled the each day capabilities and operations throughout the Senate and the Home of Representatives, highlighting the numerous impression of the strike.

The NLC and the Commerce Union Congress (TUC) have collectively declared the strike following the failure of a tripartite committee, established by the federal authorities, to agree on a brand new, honest minimal wage. 

The unions are demanding a minimal wage enhance to N494,000, a proposal that was flatly rejected throughout final evening’s intense three-hour assembly between the Nationwide Meeting management, labour representatives, and prime officers from the Government department.