Angry workers chase Wike’s motorcade, chants ‘ole’

Angry workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA on chased the motorcade of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, chanting ‘ole’, which means ‘thief’.

The aggrieved workers besieged the surrounding of the FCTA complex on Monday to protest non-payment of salaries and poor workers’ welfare which has been a subject of agitation between the workers’ union and FCTA management.

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In a video on Monday which has gone viral, workers who have declared strike since last week converged on the instruction of the union leader on Monday to press home their demands.

Upon seeing Wike’s motorcade, the atmosphere became tensed and immediately, they began to chant and move towards the motorcade in their numbers and calling on Wike to address their demands.

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The FCTA workers last week began an indefinite strike over “authorities’ failure to address long-standing labour and welfare demands”.

After shutting down offices and facilities, Wike dragged the Joint Unions Action Committee (JUAC) to court over the industrial action.

In the suit marked NICN/ABJ/17/2026 which was filed at the Abuja division of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) was slated for hearing g today.

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