The
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has called on striking
workers, particularly, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, to call
off their strike and embrace dialogue.
The Sultan, while delivering his
Eid-el-Kabir message to the Muslim faithful at his palace in Sokoto on
Tuesday, urged all striking workers to go back to the negotiation table.
He said, “We wish to use this
opportunity to call on all those on strikes, especially the university
lecturers, to call off their strikes, so as to reduce the suffering of
the people.
“And they should go back to the negotiation table in order to bring an end to the crisis.”
Abubakar also called on the Federal Government to listen to the yearnings of the striking workers.
He said, “This creates problems in the
development of the country. We call on the government to listen to the
complaints of the workers with the intention of solving them.
“The workers on their part should always be mindful of the suffering of the teeming populace in the country.”
He said the strike by the university
lecturers, which is in its fourth month, had caused a lot of hardships
to millions of students and their parents.
“The strike action of medical workers
has, on its part, caused loss of many lives and untold suffering to the
sick that cannot afford going to private clinics,” Abubakar said.
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