Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, on Monday, made good its threat by protesting and picketing the National Assembly complex because of unpaid entitlements.
Members of the association wielded placards that carried different messages around their plight and disagreement with the National Assembly management.
Some of the inscriptions read: “Pay us our MoU”; “CONLESS conditions of service must be paid”; “No circular supercedes Acts of National Assembly”; and “National Minimum Wage Act 2019 is law commencing from 9th April 2019 and not 1st January 2020.”
The protest by PASAN was consequent upon the deadlock of the emergency meeting which the management launched into with the Association on Saturday, January 8, 2022 to avert today’s (Monday) protest and massive picketing.
PASAN had on January 6, 2022 sent a notice of its resolutions at the end of a meeting where it decided among others to embark on the protest to press home its series of demands.
NASS management, THE CONCLAVE reports begged PASAN on Monday to temporarily suspend its action to enable both parties continue with negotiations on how to meet their demands.
This, as learnt came on the heels of reports that the management at the emergency meeting on Saturday agreed to proposals on meeting about 70 percent of PASAN’s demands.
But the concerns by PASAN, THE CONCLAVE further reports centre on the issue of failure by management to keep fidelity with agreements let alone mere promises.
THE CONCLAVE had reported on January 6, 2022 that there was renewed trouble for National Assembly management as PASAN was set to embark on industrial action with mass picketing on Monday
PASAN had reportedly resolved to embark on an industrial action, commencing with mass picketing from Monday, 10th January, 2022.
The action, as reported, was in response to National Assembly management’s breach of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) entered with the Association on the 13th of April, 2021 on the full implementation of the new National Minimum Wage Act 2019 and the Revised Conditions of Service.
The planned industrial action was part of the resolutions of the joint congress of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria held on 6th January, 2022.
The Association accused the National Assembly management of breaching a subsisting MoU by not honouring it as of 31s1 December 2021, being the end of the Fourth Quarter of 2021.
Other resolutions are contained in the letter by PASAN sent to the Clerk of the National Assembly, CNA, Architect Amos Ojo Olatunde.
The letter was dated January 6, 2022. It was received and acknowledged by the office of the CNA on the same day.
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