By Victor Ahiuma-Young  & Godwin Oritse

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN,  yesterday, commenced a three-day warning strike over demands for a review of their condition of service.

The development is expected to cripple commercial activities across Nigeria’s seaports.

Vanguard gathered that a new term of service  ought to have been signed between  MWUN and terminal operators  following the expiration of the old one.

Disclosing this, President of  MWUN, Adewale Adeyanju, said the industrial action was informed by the need to prevent the aggrieved workers from taking the law into their hands.

His words: ‘’It is a three-day warning strike taking place nationwide. All ports across the country will be affected. As we speak, all operations of the terminal operators nationwide have been shut.

“It began this morning (yesterday) and will last for three days. The terminal operators have for the past nine months refused to sign a condition of service for the workers. We have condition of service that is renewable every two years. Although some of them are ready to sign and implement, but others are not allowing them.

“We have been trying to control our members since nine months when this new condition of service ought to have been signed. But we have to embark on this warning strike to avoid a breakdown of law and order. The workers had become restive and were almost taking the law into their hands. It is sad that we are at this point.”