The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has accused the Federal Government of failing to protect the interest of the citizens of the State in the warning strike embarked on by the the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.
The governor in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Muyiwa Adekeye, said no official of Kaduna State would go to Abuja for any meeting with Federal Government of Migeria, FGN, or NLC when the citizens of the State had no electricity.
He said his administration would hold the Federal Government responsible for inability to assert its ownership rights over TCN.
The governor further stated that the Kaduna State Government had yet to see evidence that the NLC was backing off from its campaign of economic and social sabotage against the people of the State.
Read him: “Electric power is yet to be restored, after it was shutdown at dawn on Sunday, 16th May 2021, in brazen violation of the laws protecting essential services and infrastructure.
“That action removed any basis for state government officials to meet the NLC last Sunday. Denying our people electricity about 18 hours to the advertised commencement of their organised sabotage was akin to putting a gun on the government’s head. Government has a lawful duty not to indulge blackmail.”
The Governor also said that restoring electricity was vital to relieving some of the pain that needless acts of lawlessness had inflicted on his people.
He said the unimpeded provision of essential services was vital to civilised order, adding that those who had disrupted it should promptly reverse themselves, not expect that it would be a matter for negotiation, much less being viewed as a precondition.
The Governor said the Kaduna State Government would not participate in such a negotiation or countenance one while his people were still being denied their right to electricity.
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