The National Industrial Court has granted an interim injunction stopping the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its affiliates from embarking on its scheduled strike for Monday, September, 28 2020.
The NLC had on Wednesday vowed to commence it strike action next Monday following the Nigerian government’s increment of electricity tariff and hike in Petroleum Motor Spirit.
However, as a preemptive measure, Justice Ibrahim Galadima of the industrial court on Thursday said the interim order stopping the planned strike was pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
He court also granted an order of interim injunction restraining the unions, their officers, affiliates, privies from disrupting, restraining, picketing or preventing the workers or its affiliates or ordinary Nigerians from accessing their offices to carry out their legitimate duties on the 28th September 2020 or any other date.
Justice Galadima made the order sequel to an ex-parte application filed by the Incorporated Trustees of Peace and Unity Ambassadors Association through their counsel, Sunusi Musa.
The court also granted an order compelling the Inspector General of Police and the Director General Department of State Services (DSS) to provide protection for workers engaged in their legitimate duties from any form of harassment, intimidation and bullying by the officers, agents or privies of the unions pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.