Ebonyi reports Enugu labour leader to NLC

Ebonyi State Government has reported the chairman of the  Enugu State  chapter of the Nigeria Labour  Congress (NLC), Comrade Virginus Nwaobodo,  to the national  leadership of   congress in Abuja.

In a letter written to the national body   and signed by the SA to the Governor on Labour Relations, Mrs. Grace Chukwu, the government flayed the unwarranted attack on Governor David  Umahi by Nwobodo, saying it was capable of causing industrial disharmony between the  government and  its workers  over the state’s new pension scheme.
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The letter dated April 5 and addressed to the NLC General Secretary which was  made available to some journalists in Abakaliki on Thursday,  said Nwobodo,   who claimed to have represented the Zonal Chairman of  the NLC (South East), Comrade Uchenna Obigwe, on a fact-finding mission over the contributory pension scheme  should be called to order.

The letter  reads in part, “Comrade Virginus Nwobodo who claimed in a newspaper publication    to be on trouble-shooting mission to Ebonyi State opted to make false allegation against Governor Engr. (Chief) David  Nweze Umahi   and his administration over the issue of contributory pension scheme. “Comrade  Nwaobodo showed open bias in his comments which are capable of causing disaffection between Government and its workers”.

She  expressed surprise  that Nwobodo, who is the Enugu State chairman of the NLC,  did  not consult her as a representative of government when he visited the state. Chukwu  wondered why somebody who  came to Ebonyi State to “broker peace between two parties met only one party and drew conclusions.

The SA to the governor   called on the national President of NLC to warn the Enugu labour leader against any act that could bring division between Ebonyi State Government and its  workers.

She said, “It is also regrettable that a man who came to mediate in an issue never bothered to meet with the second party to the dispute, which is Ebonyi State Government, represented by my office.

“ It is a common practice that a man seeking to mediate in a crisis does not look for who is at fault but in gathering facts and brokering peace among the parties. Comrade  Nwaobodo abandoned this truism by choosing to toe the part of partiality.”

She said she was happy that Ebonyi workers were totally in support of the  new pension scheme. The  Acting Chairman of  the NLC in the state, Comrade Leonard Nkah, had  on Tuesday raised the alarm over the action of the Enugu labour leader in an interview with journalists.