You Can’t Stop Our Protest, NLC Tells El-rufai

The NLC plans to hold a solidarity rally in Kaduna State today to drum up support for the state council of the union, which had gone on an indefinite strike to protest the sacking of over 21,000 primary school teachers.

Addressing different press conferences in Kaduna, yesterday, the state Commissioner of Police, Agyole Abeh, and the state governor, Nasir El Rufai, said in view of the precarious security situation in the state, such protest was inappropriate.

He said: "The last time the NLC and NUT organised what they called a peaceful rally, they attacked the Kaduna State House of Assembly and destroyed public property in addition to engaging in unlawful assembly and other violations of the Penal Code of Kaduna State.

You can't stop our protest, NLC tells El-Rufai Meanwhile, organised labour, yesterday, evening told Governor El-Rufai that he cannot stop the planned peaceful protest today.

The NLC in a statement entitled, "No stopping us now," claimed that information available to the labour movement revealed that Governor El-Rufai had allegedly mobilised thugs to disrupt today's planned workers peaceful protest.

The statement signed by the National President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, read: "We also have information that the Commissioner of Police , Kaduna State Command has said all protests in the state remain banned.