Osun NLC strike over LG allocations barbaric, politically motivated – civil society group

From Lateef Dada, Osogbo
A civil society organisation in Osun State, the World Institute for Peace (WIP), has described the three-day warning strike embarked upon by the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) as politically motivated, barbaric and needless.
The NLC leadership, comprising the chairperson, Christopher Arapasopo, and the secretary, Victor Amusan, had jointly issued a statement over the weekend directing all affiliate unions to join a three-day sympathy strike.
The action was called in solidarity with the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) over the continued withholding of local government allocations in the state.
However, reacting during...