Workers in Oyo state on Wednesday embarked on a three-day warning strike over unpaid promotional salary arrears and other benefits.
Daily Trust reports that government offices were under lock and key when our correspondent visited the state secretariat and other government offices today.
Students in public schools in the state were seen returning to their various homes.
A student told Daily Trust that their teachers asked them to return home.
Some of the staff who went to work on Wednesday morning before returning home told our correspondent that the strike was necessary because the governor refused to pay the salary arrears of the workers.
“The governor is playing us. He told us that he was going to pay us our outstanding salary arrears in September but when we approached him, he said we should wait till January this year. We approached him again, he was given us excuses. We can’t tolerate it again,” a senior staff told Daily Trust.
He said if the governor cannot increase workers salaries, he should pay the outstanding ones.
The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state, Waheed Olojede, didn’t pick his calls when our correspondent tried to reach him via his mobile lines.
Details later…
