Lagos civil servants turned back from office

As the organised labour made good their threat to embark on strike action on June 3rd to press home their demand for a new minimum wage and reduction of electricity tariff, the economy of the nation was paralysed in Lagos Monday as other unions also joined the strike.

Lagos state government workers taken to their offices in Alausa in state government staff bus were turned back by labour leaders and told to go back home. Roads leading to the state secretariat, Alausa and other major roads were barricaded by the union leaders.

Also the main gate to the secretariat was shut, while all the affected staff buses were not allowed entrance into the state secretariat premises, as they were turned back, even some staff who got to their offices earlier to settle for the day’s job were told to leave their offices.

While enforcing the nationwide strike, members of labour union shut down the office of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in Lagos after chasing staff out of the Agidingbi, Ikeja, office.