Protests by workers of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, under the umbrella of the Joint Union Action Congress, JUAC, and the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, on Monday, grounded Judicial activities at the National Industrial Court. The workers mass action at the Federal Capital Territory Administration Secretariat also crippled bureaucratic activities and service delivery in the Abuja and it's environs.
The Minister of the Federal Capital, Territory Nyesom Wike, has filed a suit seeking the leave of the court to halt the ongoing strike by the workers.
The aggrieved workers on Monday in their hundreds stormed the National Industrial Court with posters of various inscriptions to condemn what they described as the high-handedness by the Minister.
Judicial, official duties, and others activities were ground for almost three hours, while the court proceedings was protected by the presence of personnel of the Nigeria Police deployed to strategic locations to prevent breakdown of law and order.
The aggrieved workers matched to the Federal Capital Territory Secretariat on receiving information that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, unlocked the gates to the premises.
The FCT Minister was said to have hurriedly left the office when information reached him that the workers were on their way to the Secretariat. He left through the back gate as the workers pursued his convoy.
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