Comrade Ayode Akele
Members of 50 Nigerian civil rights groups rallied today calling on the Lagos State Governor to reinstate Ayodele Akele to his job.
The Akele Reinstatement Campaign Organization said Akele, a former Chairman of the Council of Industrial Unions, was sacked from his civil service job thirteen years ago after leading a strike of 40,000 Lagos State workers to demand minimum wages and better working conditions.
The workers demanded a wage increase by 7,500 Naira ($75) a month. A worker, Adigun Popoola died during the strike.
The strike inspired workers in 12 other Nigerian states to also walk off the job over poor working conditions and pay. Many thousands lost their jobs as a result.
The coalition said they made many appeals over the years to get Akele his job back. This time they have two demands of Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, :
- Immediate reinstatement of Akele to his due post as Permanent Secretary in the Lagos Civil Service; and
- Immediate payment of all his entitlements, benefits and gratuities in the status of a Permanent Secretary in which he would have been retiring in 2013 having served Lagos State for 35 years since 1978 when he joined the service.
The coalition has contacted Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,former Governor of Lagos and the leadership of the All Progressive Congress but is holding off on altering human rights organizations to their claim of injustice. It was Tinubu as Lagos Governor that sacked Comrade Akele from his job.
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