Mimiko urges Ondo workers to return to work

THE Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Thursday, urged the striking workers to go back to their duty posts.
This is just as he called on well meaning people of the state to prevail on the workers to reciprocate his government’s commitment to their welfare, by calling off the strike.
He assured the workersthat he was irrevocably committed to ensuring that their welfare took the focal point of his progra-mmes, saying that what his government had done, with the vexed minimum wage law, was unprecedented in the nation, as neither the Federal Governmentnor any state government had matched what it was willing to pay workers inthe state.
Governor Mimiko, however, wondered why, in spite this, the workers’ union leaders still called workers out for strike for the second time in one month, a situation he described as baffling and unethical, in view ofthe government/workers friendly posture, being aLabour Party (LP) government.
Mimiko, who made this appeal when he led top members of his government to the state specialist hospital, in Akure, however, commended health workers in the state for passionately discharging their duties and for their dedication to work.
He said their refusal to abandon their patients at this critical time was highly commendable and worthy of emulation by other workers in the state.(NIGERIAN TRIBUNE)