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A group, Nigeria Civil Society Coalition, has urged the parties involved in the crisis rocking the Federal Institute of Industrial Research (FIIRO) to embrace peace.
The group, in a press conference, in Lagos, by Comrade Emmanuel Ayodeji, Comrade Usmann Babale and Comrade John Atani recalled that Nigeria and particularly the media had been saturated with happenings and events going on at FIIRO, all geared towards removing the Ag DG of the institute.
Ayodeji, also of the Media Right Advocacy, said findings by the body revealed that the crisis started immediately Dr Chima Igwe was appointed as the Acting Director-General of the institute.
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The Nation gathered that FIIRO workers had two weeks ago embarked on a series of protests, calling for the removal of Igwe as the Acting Director-General of the institute.
The governing board of the agency was also said to have forwarded a report on the crisis to the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu.
The ministry was said to have sent a delegation to Lagos to dialogue with the aggrieved workers in a bid to stop the protests.
Ayodeji said: “We can’t afford to continually sacrifice our best on the altar of regional sensationalism, tribalism and blackmail, hence our intervention as a civil coalition group”.
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