Trouble For Citizen As NIMC Workers In Lagos Go On Strike
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| Masses of citizens have been visible as early as 8am, NIMC employees there stated that they'd downed tools |
Members of body of workers of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Lagos State have long past on strike.
Channels Television team became on the NIMC workplace, positioned at the premises of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) workplace in Alausa, on Thursday morning.
While masses of citizens have been visible as early as 8am, NIMC employees there stated that they'd downed tools.
One of the people, who spoke with Channels Television’s Chris Ilems at the circumstance of anonymity, defined that the group of workers of the corporation took the choice to move on strike to call for higher welfare programs from the authorities.
According to him, the current boom withinside the variety of traffic on the workplace for registration of National Identification Number (NIN) has induced quite a few strain for the people.
He delivered that the people had to be paid extra for engaging in the exercising which he defined as a further duty.
Apart from the call for for allowance, the employees additionally informed Channels Television that the authorities does now no longer care approximately their safety.
They decried the dearth of defensive kits on the workplace, pronouncing they may get inflamed with COVID-19 as they attend to loads of citizens daily.
The scenario on the NIMC workplace has left many citizens there stranded, which includes the elderly, pregnant women, and moms who had include their children.
Despite the development, the citizens have did not go back to their homes, pronouncing they have been now no longer notified that the people might down tools.
They, however, endured to hold watch on the NIMC workplace with the wish that the hanging people might have a alternate of coronary heart and attend to them.