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Kaduna strike : RATTAWU Threatens Nationwide Strike Attacked On Workers

The Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU) has warned against the continues using of thugs by Governor Nasir El Rufai led government in Kaduna State.

Speaking on the development on the aideline of the ongoing industrial action in Kaduna, National President of RATTAWU, Comrade Kabir Garba Tsanni said the union will not hesitate to shut down all Goverment media houses should this uncivilised manner of El Rufai persist.

Comrade Garba however call on well meaning Nigerians to intervene by calling El Rufai to order in the best interest of the country.

” This condemnation is predicated on the resort to barbaric use of thugs to disrupt the peaceful protest of the Nigeria Labour Congress, which is occasioned by the inimical Neoliberal policies of the state government that has resulted in the termination of thousands of workers in the state civil service.

“RATTAWU does not only find the actions and inactions of the Kaduna state government as an uncivil invitation to anarchy in the state but a betrayal of the oath of office that public office holders swore to uphold.

“The state governor, Nasiru El-Rufai has in his quest for arbitrary use of power violated all provisions of the law regarding redundancy and retrenchment of workers as enshrined in labour laws.

“Consequently, the union WARNS that Governor El-Rufai should not take his luck too far by insisting on his egocentric rather than administrative posture. Should he fails to adhere to this good counsel, RATTAWU will not have any other option than to close down all government owned media houses, and some privately owned media houses that are unionized in Nigeria”.

According to the union, “no sane clime will tolerate executive rascality that has become the stock in trade of Governor Nasir El-Rufai as demonstrated by his denial of workers’ rights in Kaduna state.

‘Therefore, the union calls on all people of goodwill and anyone who cares about the good of this country to prevail on the governor to allow reason talk to him. Otherwise, RATTAWU will ensure nationwide media blackout.

“The union calls on anyone who thinks of shrinking the civil space, which is the square of liberty, for demanding for good governance and common good to desist and to do so immediately. Not even during the military regime did Nigeria witness the growing number of tyrants on daily basis resolving to continually shrink the civil space as we are witnessing today.

“For RATTAWU, dissent remains the oxygen of democracy and any who is threatened by dissent is an identifiable enemy of democracy; and thus must not be tolerated.

“The union decries the fragrant abuse of civil liberties by those in power or their cronies. All must know that in any democracy that worths the name, power lies with the people”.

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