The Anambra State Governor Prof Charles Soludo has threatened to cut salaries of workers who fail to go to work on Monday in compliance with the infamous sit-at-home order usually enforced by the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Penpushing reports that Soludo made the declaration on Monday while addressing the state workers during the 2023 May Day celebration held at the Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, noting that the Monday sit-at-home had become an excuse for workers to stop coming to work on Mondays, insisting that such would not continue under his watch.
“Monday sit-at-home has become an excuse for workers to stop coming to work on Mondays. This cannot continue. You cannot be working for just four days a week and earn full salaries’, Soludo emphasised.
‘We must get back to working on Mondays. If we do not go to work, we must not get our full salary. We must be paid proportionally with the number of days we work. If we must continue staying away from work on Mondays, then we will start coming to work on Saturday,” he said.
Penpushing further reports that the Governor said he had increased the workers’ salaries by 10 per cent in December and pleaded with them to start coming to work on Mondays.
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), it is recalled in August 2021, introduced the sit-at-home order every Monday across the South-east to pressure the Nigerian government to release its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is on trial at the Federal High Court, Abuja, for alleged terrorism.
Penpushing also reports that the separatist group later suspended the order, in preference for the order to be implemented only on the days Kanu appears in court, but despite its suspension, residents of the five South-East States — Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Abia and Anambra have been observing the Monday sit-at-home order, mostly out of fear.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of Kanu has repeatedly disowned the enforcers of the Monday sit-at-home in the region, maintaining that the Monday sit-at-home remains suspended and described those behind the civil action as criminals attempting to blackmail the secessionist group.
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