The House of Representatives on
Wednesday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to urgently transmit the
Tripartite Agreement on National Minimum Wage to the National Assembly for
legislation, “to avert looming industrial action and its attendant
consequences.”
This is just as the lawmakers
resolved to investigate the causes of incessant strikes by the organized
labour, including the Parliamentary Staff Association of the National Assembly
(PASAN) and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and to make appropriate
recommendations.
The resolutions followed a motion
by Sani Zoro (APC, Jigawa) of urgent public importance, with a “call for
legislative intervention to maintain industrial peace in Nigeria”.
Zorro, in a lead debate, had
raised alarm over frequent threats of industrial action by the organized
labour, amidst lack of viable alternative or due process needed for appropriate
resolution of industrial disputes.
“We are worried by the reluctance
of the Presidency to transmit the Tripartite Agreement on National Minimum Wage
to the National Assembly for legislation, to avert looming industrial action
and its attendant socio-economic consequences.
“Yesterday, members of the
Parliamentary Staff Association of the National Assembly also picketed our two
legislative chambers to draw attention to their grievances,” Zoro said.
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