A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Ige Asemudara, has said the organised labour took its Monday and Tuesday strike to the extreme by shutting the national grid. The lawyer said the action exposed Nigeria to insecurity. Asemudara, the Founder of Mission Against Injustice in Nigeria, spoke in an interview with NAN on Friday in Lagos.
He said that closing the national grid was not reasonable. “No matter what you do during a strike, you do not expose the country to insecurity or toy with the safety of a nation. ''If you shut down the national grid , you have exposed the country to insecurity and also toyed with the fragile safety of Nigerians. “All of the security systems in the country are run by the electrical system; so, when you shut down, you have breached the security of the nation,” he said.
“That law, with the greatest respect, is not effective during a strike but even if it does, it is a law passed under the military regime of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari in 1984-1985.” He further said the law ought to have been amended. He said, ” I do not know why that legislation has not been amended since the military regime because it has some of the most unreasonable provisions in human history.
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