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NLC to Protest Sokoto Governor Wamakko’s Assault on PHCN Employees

By on November 12, 2012

Wammako in a less threatening posture

Public services will soon be shut down in Sokoto as the Nigeria Labour Congress has threatened to embark on a strike in order to protest the recent activities of Sokoto Governor Aliyu Wamakko.

Wamakko, a few weeks ago, assaulted in a brutalizing manner staff of the PHCN due to unavailability of electricity in his village.

NLC President, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar, said, “The position of congress is that the governor must apologise publicly and he must do this as quickly as possible, otherwise we will unleash a series of actions to protect the integrity of not just workers in Sokoto State, but that of the generality of Nigerian workers.

“Congress is therefore putting every worker in both the public and private sectors in Sokoto State on notice by directing all unions to commence mobilisation towards a solidarity action by the entire workers of the state against this barbaric act by the governor, if he does not accede to the demand of the union to apologise.”

He added, “The Nigeria Labour Congress has been watching in the past few days with keen interest, what has been happening in Sokoto State where a gross human right violation was inflicted on a worker of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, by the state’s number one citizen, Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko.

“We are reliably informed that light was taken off in the governor’s village (possibly while some ceremonies were to take place). The next thing was for the governor to summon the officer in charge of PHCN in the area and publicly flogged him to a state of coma.

“In reaction to this, the National Union of Electricity Employees, had asked the governor to apologise. Typical of an arrogant Governor, he chose to keep mute ever since,  resulting in the total blackout being experienced in the state for about a week now.

“This is absolutely unacceptable in any decent society, and an uncivilised, undemocratic behavior least expected of anyone elected to serve the interests of the entire citizens of the state.”