16 months after, Assembly Union gives 7-day ultimatum to FG

By allcitynews.ng

16 months after suspension of its last strike, the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) has served notice of its readiness to go back to the trenches over financial autonomy by some state governments.

Just it gave 7-day ultimatum to Federal Government and the Assembly management fresh notice to resume suspended strike if and when its demands are not met.

The workers who made this known reiterated its readiness to commence a nationwide strike tomorrow if its members’ demands are not met after a fresh seven-day ultimatum expires.

The union is demanding that state governors immediately commence the implementation of financial autonomy for state Houses of Assembly in line with the 1999 constitution (as amended). The strike action will disrupt parliamentary activities across the country.

In a letter of notice addressed to the chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, the chairman of the Forum of Speakers, and the Department of State Security Services, the association indicated that it had previously issued a 21-day strike notice on September 18.

The notice, signed by the Acting Secretary-General of PASAN, Ugochi Happiness Agugbue, pointed out that state governors had not implemented financial autonomy for state Houses of Assembly as required by the constitution of the federation.

Agugbue explained that despite numerous letters from the union, the government had failed to meet their demand for financial autonomy for state houses of assembly.

The letter stated, “We refer to our letters dated September 18 and October 7, 2023, on a 21-day ultimatum to embark on industrial action if financial autonomy is not implemented in the state Houses of Assembly nationwide by Wednesday, October 18, 2023, and hereby inform you that the leadership of our great union has further extended the ultimatum by one week.

“We therefore hope that the extension will further provide ample opportunity to meet the demands of the union and avert industrial action.

“We, therefore, hereby reiterate the union’s preparedness to direct members to embark on the proposed strike action if its demands are not yielded to.”

It would be recalled that the body, June 14, 2022 suspended its over one week strike which it started on 5th June and called off June 14, 2022 over non-payment of a backlog of entitlements by the management.

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