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Vanguard, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020 — 39 08052202308 (sms only) Review of Labour laws, our concerns ---Labour, NECA Stories by Victor Young THOUGH there is consensus among stakeholders and other keen watchers of the Labour sector that most of the nation’s Labour laws are obsolete and need a total review to meet the exigencies of the time, organized labour and Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, have expressed concern over steps being taking ahead of the planned review. Speaking to Vanguard, President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba, informed that “the processes of reviewing our Labour laws have been on for a long time. We have some drafts in place and some of them went to the National Assembly. But they were not signed into law, consequently, they were brought back. It is usually a process that is well spelt out. The process of reviewing the Labour laws is through tripartite. That means the social partners have to review it. This has been the practice all through the years. “Importantly, also is that in reviewing the Labour laws, you do not just review them in a vacuum. Every year there is a report of the committee of experts of the International Labour Organisation, ILO, every year you attend ILO, there is a report of the committee of experts to review laws that you have domesticated, their application both in practice and in law. If you look at the report as it affects Nigeria, there are lots of areas we need to strengthen. Like the issue of child Labour, issue of unionisation among several issues that have been raised which in the review , we must consider and put them side by side with the report of the committee of experts. The review cannot be from the blues. "It has to be through a process and the only process that is known by law is tripartite where the social partners will participate in a process of social dialogue. They will looki at what have done in the past because it was also with the support of ILO. I recall that five laws were reviewed but we were not fortunate because they were not passed into law and most of them have also been overtaken by events because of the annual report of the committee of the experts of ILO. So, clearly, we look forward to the period and also the process which is well a defined process in law and in practice. NECA' stance Similarly, Director General of NECA, Dr Timothy Olawale, said “Most of the laws where reviewed in 2005 or thereabout and sent to the national assembly. Events have overtaken * Nigerian workers protesting against unfair government policy . some of them; there are developments either by judicial pronouncements to update or upgrade what they have done before, but fundamentally due diligence is not done by the FG begs electricity workers for 2 months to address grievances NIGERIANS can now heave a sigh of relief as workers in the nation’s Power Sector, under the aegis of National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, have put on hold threat to resume their suspended strike after the Federal Government pleaded for two months to address their grievances. This was the outcome of a conciliatory meeting called by the Minister of Labour and employment, Dr Chris Ngige, with leaders of NUEE, following the 14-day strike notice by the union on January 29, where NUEE threatened to resume its suspended strike, over nonimplementation of the agreement reached with the government on December 11, 2019, among others. After a closed-door meeting which lasted about five hours, the Ngige said “We have reviewed the agreement reached in December 2019. We have given ourselves a terminal date of 60 days within which to process the remaining persons that have not gotten their severance pay. The number is not as what NUEE is saying but at the same time, we expect that payment should be effected latest at the end of 60 days. “We are going to reach out to power generating companies and power distribution companies so that the issue of casualisation should not be happening again. We will also deal with the issue of non-remittance of check-off dues and non-unionisation in some executives to work with the legislature to pass them. Haven said that labour laws are unique, unlike other laws that are open to the entire public. Labour law is premised on places. We are going to handle it as a ministry and deal with it before the end of the first quarter of the year.” On his part, NUEE’s General Secretary, Joe Ajaero, said “We are not satisfied with the result of the meeting because it is coming rather too late. Privatisation issue took place seven years ago and most of the people involved have died and we are still talking of their entitlements and underpayment. We are now looking at another 60 days to address the issue. Do you need Intra-union crisis hits Asuri as branches petition EFCC By Gabriel Olawale THE Academic Staff Union of Federal Institute of Industrial Research, ASURI, has been engulfed by the intra-union crisis as some branches of the union have petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, accusing the union’s national leadership of misappropriation of funds At a congress in Lagos attended by no fewer than 30 representatives from different branches, National Administrative Secretary of ASURI, Mohammad- Monzoor Akinwale, claimed the misappropriation had led to illegal and fraudulent withholding of monthly check-off dues of some ASURI branches by the national leadership. Akinwale informed that checkoff dues were automatically withdrawn from members’ salary out of which 40 per cent was expected to be remitted to the state tripartism, it is tripartite that work on the laws, agree on it, own it, and send it to the National Assembly. So, that is why some of us felt it was needless to tell the general public to ultimatum before people will remit pension deduction or for people who short-paid you for 16 months to remit the amount? You don’t need it. Unlike other agreements where we tell our people that we have achieved something, in this case, we have not achieved anything. We are still prolonging the evil days. This ministry had intervened before and gave directives to the companies on some of the agreement on the issue of unionisation, noncasualisation, remittance of branches, but alleged that the national body had refused to do so. According to him, “We want the EFCC to investigate misappropriation of public funds within the confine of ASURI national body. This misappropriation has led to illegal and fraudulent withholding of monthly check-up dues of many ASURI branches across the country. ASURI national body deducts check-up dues directly through the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information, IPPIS, arrangement but failed to remit 40 per cent to state branches of ASURI which is against the constitution. This refusal has denied branches the ability to carry out their activities.” Akinwale alleged that remittance failure had become the norms of the national secretariat of ASURI, lamenting that Dr Theophilus Ndubuaku had been the Secretary-General of ASURI since the early 1990s and refused to leave. He said “we have also petition send memorandum to the ministry for the review of the law because eventually when the cheeps are down, it is government as represented by ministry of Labour employers as represented by NECA, and the labour movement that will sit down and agree on this particular issues that we are talking about. "Secondly, when you are working on labour laws, you must also know that you are building on what has been done before. You are not starting from the scratch. As a matter of fact, in 2019, extensive work was done by the tripartite to review the labour law. Are we saying that the information and collation that were done for several weeks in 2019 are no longer relevant? NECA was involved, the NLC was involved, the TUC was involved, the Ministry of Labour was involved and the ILO was also there as technical partners. So, we are not starting from the scratch. We should build on that and just dot the I’s and cross the t’s, that’s what needs to be done so that we fast-tracked and pass it to the national assembly for necessary action." check-off dues in 2016 but the organizations ignored it. “I am not happy because we have about two weeks to deal with the companies but the ministry is intervening that we should wait. We don’t understand what is happening. How will I as a permanent secretary or minister give directives and they will not be respected? That was why when we met the Speaker of the House of Representatives, I told the house to give the labour ministry more powers. When a directive is flaunted, there should be a sanction." ministry of labour complaining about what happened at the national level, we want them to be aware of constitution infraction carried out by the national body of ASURI. The constitution insists that for every year there must be not less than four national executive council meeting but between 2014 and 2018 there was no single executive meeting despite all the agitation across the country until late 2019 and when that happened it was not properly constituted.” Reacting, Former President of ASURI, Dr Adebayo Ajala, said all the allegations against the ASURI national leadership were false, saying “we have told them to come up with concrete evidence to show that the leadership has violated the constitution. The socalled ASURI Reformed Group has refused to come up with writer complaints so that we have a document we can work on. It is not possible for the EXCO to look into a verbal allegation made at a press conference.
40 — Vanguard, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020 NIGERIA: A peep into Buhari’s distinctive legacies —Nwabueze •Osoba, Anyaoku, Okowa, Okogie, Clark to launch books By Clifford Ndujihe LAGOS—LEGAL Icon, Professor Ben Nwabueze, SAN, has examined five years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration declaring that he has left distinctive legacies to Nigeria. The legacies have credit and deficient sides but the positive achievements have been overshadowed by the deficient side of the balance sheet, Nwabueze said In a 345-page, three-part, and 14-chapter book, which will be launched today, at the National Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, in Lagos, Professor Nwabueze viewed the “distinctive legacies” through the prism of GOtv Steps-Up offer to end in 3 days L AGOS—GOtv customers can still enjoy the “Step Up” offer to higher packages until 29 February, when the campaign ends. The Step Up offers commenced on 15 January and affords all active and disconnected GOtv customers, especially those on GOtv Jolli, Jinja, Plus, Value and Lite packages, the chance to watch varied programming available across higher packages at the price of a lower package at the start of 2020. The offer ensures all GOtv customers on the Jolli, Jinja, Plus, Value and Lite packages who pay for One feared dead as students clash in Ibadan By Ola Ajayi I B A D A N — STUDENTS of IMG and Oke Bola Comprehensive High School, yesterday, engaged in a bloody clash which left many of them injured. Vanguard gathered that dangerous weapons like cutlasses, knives, axes were freely used while the fracas lasted. An unconfirmed report had it that one of the students was killed. Also several cars parked by the roadside were damaged by the rampaging students. The Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gbenga Fadeyi, while confirming the incident said: “The clash :Vanguard vanguardnews News :@vanguardnews :@vanguardnews NEWS HOTLINES: 08052867023, 08052867058 Assault on the Judiciary; Nigeria tottering on the brink; and the 2019 general elections. Titled: “President Buhari’s Distinctive Legacies to Nigeria,” the book will be presented alongside another book: Further Thoughts on the Nigerian Constitution and Polity, by a team of eminent Nigerians including former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba; former Commonwealth Secretary- General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku; Governor Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta) and Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (Sokoto); Cardinal Anthony Okogie, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Chief EK Clark, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Mr. Peter Obi; Alhaji Buba Galadima, Chiefs Solomon Asemota, Mike Ozekhome, and Nnia Nwodo among others. their current packages are upgraded to the next higher package to get access to the best of sports, latest news, local movies, series, reality shows and general entertainment content for 30 days. In a statement by Chief Customer Officer, MultiChoice Nigeria, Martin Mabutho, the company said the offer demonstrates the company’s dedication to reward and provide more value to its customers. Mabutho said: “Our customers deserve only the best and we decided to provide them with more value with this special offer." was between two schools in Oke Ado and the police swift response led to the arrest of 10 students.” He also added that the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Shina Olukolu, had ordered that the Area Commander in Iyaganku should ensure that the matter did not escalate. LAGOS—LAGOS State government, yesterday, disclosed that plans are underway to finding a permanent solution to truck accidents in the state. In a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, the state government expressed worry over the rate of trailers/tankers involved in major accidents on the expressways and major arteries. Omotoso, however, promised to engage the SEMINAR: From left—Kenneth Adejumoh, Corporate Communications Manager, Nosak Group; Samuel Osahon, Shipping Manager, Nosak Group; Arizona Obasi, Team Lead, Export & Agriculture Division, Fidelity Bank; Adeyinka Olowonyo, Head, Commercial, Nosak Group, and Obih Odimegwu, Business Development Manager, Cobalt International Service, during the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN's Sensitization Seminar for Exporters, Regulators and Stakeholders in the export business value chain, in Lagos. Airlines’ll no longer divert flights to other countries, NAMA tells Reps By Tordue Salem A BUJA—MANAGING Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Captain Fola Akinkuotu, yesterday, assured the House Committee on Aviation chaired by Rep. Nnolim Nnaji that Nigerian passengers, will no longer experience flight diversions to other countries. He said with the calibration of the category 3 Instrument Landing System, ILS, installed at the Lagos airport, diversions will no longer recur. Captain Akinkotu gave the assurance when he and the Acting Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Captain Abdulahi Sidi met with the members of the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation investigating the circumstances that led to several diversions of Lagosbound international flights to neighbouring West African countries. House of Representatives had on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, after adopting a motion on the “Urgent need to complete the installation and upgrade of landing equipment at the nation’s airports to enhance safety in our airspace”, directed the committee to investigate and ensure that all the acquired landing equipment, (category 3 ILS and other Supportive equipment) were installed at the designated airports without further delay to forestall further incidents of flight diversions in the nation’s airspace. The committee chairman, Nnaji had at the beginning of the meeting, expressed the concerns of the parliament over the Reconciliation C'ttee: Ondo APC leaders pass vote of confidence on Akande By Dayo Johnson A K U R E — CONCERNED leaders of the All Progressives Congress Forum in Ondo State, yesterday, dissociated Lagos warns truck drivers against recklessness Ogun State Government and the Federal Government agencies to identify the cause of the recurring Lagos-Ibadan Expressway accidents and fashion out solutions. The statement reads: “Over the last three months, Lagos State has experienced an upsurge in the number of trailers/tankers involved in major accidents on the Expressways and major arteries. We will continue to encourage people to do business in Lagos, but we will not allow the lives of Lagosians and visitors to be put at risk. “Lagos State will not tolerate the recklessness of truck drivers when transporting goods on our roads. The Vehicle Inspection Services, VIS, is to step up its activities in the government’s bid to stop such accidents involving trucks and others. “The government is also curious about the persistence tanker accidents at the Berger end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the resultant gridlock that trails the incidents, spiraling through the entire Ikeja axis of the State and traumatising motorists and commuters." diversions He said: “We are concerned because, for our failure to do what we ought to do, we are indirectly promoting other countries to the detriments of Nigeria. Whether we believe it or not there is a silent trade war going on between Nigeria and other countries so situations like these can easily be exploited to the disadvantage of our country.” The NAMA boss, who stated that the Ministry and its agencies were working hard to sustain the over six years of accident-free period achieved by the themselves from the vote of no confidence passed on the Chairman of the party National Reconciliation Committee, Chief Bisi Akande, by members of the Unity Forum within the party. The leaders include Chief Erastus Akeju and Bode Sunmonu from the North, Pa Olufemi Ojo and Chief Dapo Ajayi from the central and Sir E. A Akintade and Mrs. Yejide Ogundipe from the southern districts of the state. A communiqué issued after a meeting, the leaders said: “Members expressed their dismay about the fake communiqué issued by a unity forum supposedly led by Alhaji Ali Olanusi and unanimously dissociate ourselves from the castigation of our respected elder and leader Chief Bisi Akande. sector through the provision and installation of modern aids, regretted that the diversions occurred explaining that it was largely due to inclement weather. He, however, pointed out that if the category 3 ILS installed at the Lagos Airport way back in November 2019 had been calibrated on schedule the diversions would not have occurred despite the bad weather. He attributed the delay to the interferences that were observed from some of the erected communication masts around the airport during the initially scheduled calibration exercise. “We, hereby, express our unflinching confidence in the leadership of Chief Bisi Akande and the National Reconciliation Committee jointly set up by the Presidency and our National Party leadership. “We have resolved to support all efforts by our National Leaders to unite the party and in this regard, will work for the accomplishment of the objectives of APC Advisory council which we believe will further strengthen our party in Ondo State. “Members reviewed the present political situation in the State and lamented that the continued division in the party is fueled by the way and manner Governor Akeredolu has excluded large sections of the party both in government and the party.”
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