 Activities in the National Assembly were grounded to a halt yesterday as members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria Passan and National Assembly Service Commission began an indefinite strike action. The strike action is in demand for the implementation of a subsisting memorandum of understanding for payment of all arrears and other conditions of service to staff of the unions. Emmanuel Ehigene completes this report. The strike action by the workers was necessitated by the National Assembly Management's refusal to keep an agreement reached and jointly signed by the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, the National Assembly Service Commission on 13 April 2021. The striking workers mounted blockade at the entrance of the National Assembly complex preventing lawmakers, staff of various financial institutions operating inside the complex and others from gaining access. The workers insisted that the industrial action will continue until all agreements are met, including revised conditions of service, training and retraining of staff, payment of minimum wage arrears, leave grant and other allowances. The agreement was based on a revised condition of service for staff of the National Assembly, where sort of allowances were increased, where some were added. This issue as I said has been on since 2018 and to today they have not implemented the said agreement. They started with some of the allowances last year but by January this year they stopped all payments, claiming that the salary and wages commission has not approved those allowances. Efforts by an official from the Human Resource Department of the National Assembly could not assuage the protesters. This management is not out to deny us of anything. Yes, yes and and if there is if there is anything that the management is hiding I don't think management will agree to say that you want to have interface with the entire staff of National Assembly and the Commission. Let us look no matter no matter how difficult a situation is no matter how difficult a situation is we need to see them discuss it. We are not talking of another negotiation that is not what I'm talking about nobody nobody is talking about negotiation but no matter how difficult a situation is it is only when we have a meeting grand for us to see them together and talk. The unions directed all members to stay at home from today in furtherance of the indefinite strike. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.