{"id":14956,"date":"2015-08-24T18:58:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T18:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14956"},"modified":"2015-08-24T18:58:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T18:58:01","slug":"plans-to-privatize-parastatals-labour-locks-imo-assembly-as-speaker-appeals-for-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=14956","title":{"rendered":"Plans To Privatize Parastatals Labour Locks Imo Assembly As Speaker Appeals For Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=14958\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14958\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/okoroch-owelle.jpg\" alt=\"okoroch owelle\" width=\"599\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14958\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/okoroch-owelle.jpg 599w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/okoroch-owelle-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe lingering dispute between Civil Servants and Imo State Government took a bad turn Thursday when the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC moved into the Assembly Complex to challenge the plan by  the state government to commercialize parastatals in the state.<br \/>\nFollowing reports that plans were underway to sell parastatals therefore diffuse the arrears owed the staff of the co-operation, the organized Labour moved in to stop the action.<br \/>\nThe NLC moved early in the morning to not only put the gate under lock and  key but also bar members from gaining access.<br \/>\nThe action attracted the attention of the speaker, Acho Ihim, who raced to the Assembly Complex to meet the aggrieved Labour Union officials.<br \/>\nThe union officials informed the Speaker that apart from government owing Assembly Staff about five months salary arrears. Labour was noted of plans to commercialize the parastatals through a law of the House.<br \/>\nIn response, Ihim denied plans to make such laws stating that  no  bill or  motion related  to  the said rumour is before the House.<br \/>\nHe requested the NLC and entire workers to ignore such unfounded reports.<br \/>\nHe however asked the workers to exercise patients with government on salary matters as the governor is working towards making workers in the state.<br \/>\nIt could be recalled that just on Wednesday August 19, that staff of the Assembly demonstrated in the complex demanding for  the their 4 months salary arrears which the Governor in several of  his statements have  been promising to settle.       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lingering dispute between Civil Servants and Imo State Government took a bad turn Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14959,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956\/revisions\/14959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}