The Lagos State Parks and Garages Administrators (LASPGA) led by Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo, has warned the state chapter of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) against its planned protest in support of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), asking the union to abort the plan.
This followed the threat by TUC to shut down Lagos state on Monday and embark on an indefinite industrial action over the ban on the activities of RTEAN despite a court order.
This disclosure is contained in a press statement signed by the state secretary of LASPAGA, Mr Abdulrahman Amusan, on Saturday, where he stated that it is “disturbing”, “debasing and demeaning for the parent body to be relegated to chasing shadows”.
The association argued that the existence of LASPGA was in line with the pronouncement of the state government.
It also cautioned the TUC president and his supporters to “abort their planned protest and not to allow itself to be dragged into the stormy water of the Transport Union by Alhaji Musa Muhammed who is the national treasurer of the TUC”.
Amusan in the statement said,
All the schemes to cause chaos and pandemonium in the state by the leadership of the TUC in the guise of protest are not alien to us.
We are familiar with the metrics of Alhaji Musa MUHAMMED and his cohorts in the Trade Union. To us, the planned protest is a case of weeping more than the bereaved.
He said,
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Recall that the TUC President, Felix Osifo, during a press conference on Friday, threatened that the union will embark on an indefinite strike and vowed to ground economic activities in Lagos State over the ban on the operations of its affiliate union, the RTEAN by the state government.
It also directed its members to mobilize for a one-day protest on Monday in preparation for the withdrawal of service.
Osifo said the Lagos state government had technically proscribed RTEAN in the state which led to taking over the motor parks and locked the office.
