By Tina Akannam
Dutse — Workers in Jigawa State have defiled the three-day nation wide warning strike as virtually all civil servants at all levels reported to their respective offices against the directive of both the national and state bodies of the NLC.

Normal activities went  on in all government offices in the state capital, Dutse.  Vanguard observed that almost all government and private institutions opened for business, but Federal Government parastatals, commercial institutions like banks, insurance companies were all closed down.

Ironically, when Vanguard visited the state’s new and old secretariats, civil servants under the state and local governments from commissioners down to messengers were all found busy in their offices, similarly, all the schools in the state capital both public and private were open.

However, effort to get official reaction on why Jigawa State government and local government workers failed to join the nationwide strike proved abortive as both the state chairman of  Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and his acting chairman were not in office.

Vanguard gathered that the state chairman of the NLC, Comrade Jibril Abubakar, was not in the country while the acting chairman was said to have travelled to Abuja for NEC meeting.

But a source from the NLC who refuse to disclose his name after much persuasion, said the refusal of Jigawa workers to join the nationwide warning strike is unconnected not unconnected to the recent salary increment by the state government which the state workers started enjoying since October this year .

Prominent sites along banks in the state capital are long queues of people who want to withdraw their money from ATM machines as the banks are not working.