Strike: Task Force Beats Up Workers As Deaths are Recorded in Hospital

By Olakiitan Victor in Ado Ekiti

Labour leaders who picketed some offices in Ado Ekiti to enforcecompliance with the state-wide strike called to protest  against unpaidfive months’ salaries on Friday  beat up some workers on essentialduties for allegedly working as saboteurs.There were also reported cases of deaths at the emergency section ofthe Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital , Ado Ekiti, as fourpeople who were brought in as emergency cases were reported to have died onThursday.The picketing was carried by a task force set up by the Chairmen ofthe Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Ade Adesanmi, TUC, Comrade OdunayoAdesoye and that of Joint Negotiating Council.The rampaging  task force, who brandished cudgels,  visited the oldand new governor’s offices and chased out those on essential services,especially the staff of the protocol unit, those of  directorate cadreand  staff of  the internal revenue service.