The Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC), Oyo State Chapter has demanded the immediate payment of six months outstanding salaries and pension arrears. The union made the demand at a news conference held at the Union’s secretariat in Ibadan on Saturday, saying it would never relent in its pursuit of better welfare for its members.
The Treasurer of the Union, Bosun Daramola, who read the resolutions of the congress, called for the immediate and unconditional release of seven of its leaders currently being detained. The Nation gathered that seven labour leaders, including the state NLC Chairman, Waheed Olojede, were on Thursday arrested and detained by the Oyo State Police Command.
They were arraigned at the Iyaganku Magistrate Court on Friday and remanded at the Agodi Prisons for not meeting their bail conditions. Daramola alleged that the continued incarceration of the leaders on the excuse that they did not meet bail condition is an orchestrated plan of the state government to intimidate the union leaders.
Daramola listed the other demands as immediate withdrawal of all trump up charges leveled against the incarcerated labour leaders and that government must rescind its decision to sell-off some public school in the state.