 Labour unions yesterday began a five-day warning strike in Kaduna State. NLC national president, Comrade Ayubah Waba, said at the flag-off of the strike that it will run its full course unless the state government attends to the workers' grievances. He said the national leadership of the NLC had been informed that the grievances included the sacking of 7,000 workers from local government in the state. He said the Congress was aware that in the primary healthcare development agency 1,700 workers were sacked in the face of exorbitant increment in tuition fees, high cost of living, and other actions in ministries and agencies in the states that are uncalled for. We are here to resist a government that does not respect the rule of law. We are here to respect a government that does not respect the dignity of living. You are aware of the provision of Section 20 of the Labour Act. It made very clear provision that before any employer of Labour, be it in the public sector, be it in the public sector, the clear redundancy, they must first consult the union and the workers' representative. In fact, the law says sure. And the first item, they are in the name of the disease teacher in the list of people who have passed competency tests. And they must accept we are carrying out a post-competency test. We don't tell the issue to him, not only verbal, it was a writing. We never knew that it was a neoliberal policy. What happened is that he has seen workers, particularly primary school teachers, that are occupying higher grades and their salary is a bit higher than the lower grade. So he compared the needs of all those teachers and now said they have failed their competencies. These are teachers that are experienced. These are teachers that have grown from the rank and file to arrive at where we are. Most of the teachers were goers. And then he replaced them with newly employed teachers that were on lower grade level, mostly on level 7, 8 and 9. And he put them on a fixed salary. As I speak to you after two years, they are still temporary students. Is that a decent work? Is that what the law says? In 2017, it sucked 5,000 workers, local government workers. Thenly, as of last week, it sucked 2,441. When you had it up, it sucked 7,441 local government workers without any remuneration, without their severance package, either at their gratuity or any amount of money paid to them. Many of them have died. I've just raised an example of the former president of Norge. The man was sad. He became depressed. He died. And his family announced of thought to a number of local government workers in Kaduna Sea that Air Rufae has, because of these injustices, has led to their death. The other law says, before you disengage the worker, there's one we call the London Sea Law. You shall engage the labor union representing that worker. Air Rufae acted in breach of this Air Lo Convention, in breach of Trade Union Amendment Act of 1906. He has acted against fundamental human rights, which is the shatter on the Air Lo and United Nations. And he has acted in deviance of the favour he received from God Almighty. We are here to also address our retinas concerning the tuition fee increment in the entire Kaduna States institutions. 100% increment. This is an exploitation in which we are not going to accept it. Initially, the money we are paying, 24,000 Naira for non-Indigenous, 36,000 Naira for non-Indigenous. Some of our students are unable to pay that particular money. And now you have increased the money to 170,000 to 300,000. We don't want that increment. We want you to do total reversal of that increment. We don't want to even tell you to reduce it for us. But rather, we want total reversal because we are thinking of the future generation that are coming. Thank you.