Members of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, (NUT), Nigerian Labour Congress, (NLC) chapters in Kaduna State are currently protesting over the planned sack of over 21,000 teachers in the state.
The workers led by the NLC National President Ayuba Wabba defile the ban of street protest in the State as they took over the Independence way in Kaduna metropolis.
One of the organizers told our correspondent that the protest was organized in collaboration with the National Union of Local Government Employees, (NULGE) who are also at logger’s heads with the state government over what they said is the alleged planned sack of over 4000 of their members.
The protest apart from the NLC President also have in attendance NULGE and NUT leaders from the 19 Northern states who stormed Kaduna in solidarity with their embattled colleagues in Kaduna.
The Workers gathered at the NLC state secretariat along the Independence Way from where they matched from through the Murtala Muhammad Square and terminated at the state House of Assembly.
The workers led by the NLC, President, Ayuba Wabba flanked by other officials are demanding that the state government rescind its decision to sack the teachers or be ready to face the entire labour force in the state and Nigeria as a whole.
Addressing the workers, Waba assured them that the leadership of the NLC will support them and ensure that they get what they deserved from the state government, insisting that sacking of the teachers will not be accepted.
He argued that government has no constitutional powers to organize such competency test for teachers, adding that only the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria has the mandate to do so.
He, therefore, insisted that the two weeks ultimatum issued to the state government still stands and called on the state government to cancel the planned dismissal of teachers, or they will embark on an indefinite strike.
The protesters in their hundreds matched amidst singing anti-government songs along the roads carrying placards with various inscriptions, urging the government to stop the planned sack.