Why NULGE threaten to shut down 774 local councils

By allcitynews.ng

Irked by move to scrap their offices, worker under Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), has threatened to shut  down the 774 local government areas in the country.

Their planned shutting down is to register their displeasure over the alleged plot by the National Assembly to remove the local government as the third tier of government from the constitution.

The union said that it would be left with no other option than to shut down the 774 council areas if the lawmakers went ahead with the proposal.

National President of NULGE, Comrade Ambali Olatunji who made this known while speaking to a journalists in Abuja, weekend, warned that the Union would not hesitate to mobilise its members on a mass protest to the National Assembly to resist what they described as “anti-people plot.”

He advised the leadership of the National Assembly to organize a forum within two weeks with the union so that they would discus the issues to avert crisis.

Comrade Olatunji expressed disappointment with a member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State that was said to have brought up such a controversial bill, saying that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike was a product of local government and a former local government chairman.

He said that the union has already written to the leadership of the National Assembly especially the House of Representatives to oppose the bill, warning that the strike which was imminent, would be ultimate if the legislators remain adamant.

“We also know that this is a serious challenge to local government, and we are saying this, very soon if we engage them (NASS) and the leadership is not doing what is needful, we might direct our members to shut down the country in all the 774 local government, but we hope that they will not allow it to degenerate to that level.”