Abia PASAN embarks on indefinite strike action over non implementation of financial autonomy

Emelam Udo, Umuahia

In a bid to enforce the Financial Autonomy granted State Houses of Assembly, members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) in Abia, have embarked on indefinite strike to press home their demand for the implementation.

Members of the body, Monday, barricaded the entrance to the State House of Assembly express their displeasure over the alleged failure of the state government to commence the implementation of the autonomy.

The members of the Union placed a big banner at the Assembly gate as the task force barred anybody from gaining entrance into the complex located at Government Station Layout at Ogurube, Umuahia.

Speaking with Newsmen, Abia chapter of PASAN Chairman, Sunday Kalu, that the action by the state chapter was in compliance with the directive from the National body.

He said that it was also as a result of the failure of the state government to domesticate the Executive Order 10 signed by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2020.

Kalu further informed that the union had embarked on the strike some years back, but later decided to suspend it after negotiation with the government “and up till now nothing has been done.”

He said ” The union has decided that we embark on indefinite strike, pending when we get a concrete achievement for our members”

He disclosed that some states had started partial implementation but opined that due process was not fully followed.

His words “In Abia, we have not gotten the administrative autonomy which is paramount.

“We have Abia State House of Assembly Commission Law that empowers the Assembly to stay on its own administratively.

“We are calling on the State Government to do the needful by constituting the State House of Assembly commission and then the financial autonomy.”