The Association of Local Governments of Nigeria has faulted the National Union of Local Government Employees over its planned protest against the police barricade of the 23 local government council secretariats in Rivers State.
Paul, according to the statement, alleged that the action of the police has prevented its members from going to work from where they provide for their families and the attendant man-hour losses. Ihunda, who stated this at a media briefing in Port Harcourt, yesterday, also faulted Governor Siminalayi Fubara for appointing NULGE members who are council workers into caretaker committees for the 23 councils.
MEANWHILE, the Ijaw National Congress , the Civil Society Organisations and labour unions, have urged the Nigerian police to vacate the council secretariats in Rivers, which have been barricaded for about six days, following the controversial local council chairmen tenure elongation crisis.
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