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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Ige Asemudara, has said the organised labour took its Monday and Tuesday strike to the extreme by shutting the national grid.<\/p>\n

The lawyer said the action exposed Nigeria to insecurity.<\/p>\n

Asemudara, the Founder of Mission Against Injustice in Nigeria, spoke in an interview with NAN on Friday in Lagos.<\/p>\n

He said that closing the national grid was not reasonable.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what you do during a strike, you do not expose the country to insecurity or toy with the safety of a nation.<\/p>\n

\u201dIf you shut down the national grid, you have exposed the country to insecurity and also toyed with the fragile safety of Nigerians.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the security systems in the country are run by the electrical system; so, when you shut down, you have breached the security of the nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He, however, said the action should not be regarded as unlawful or treasonable since electrical workers had the right to go on strike.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a fellow who was quoting the Miscellaneous Offences Act stating that anyone who tampers with electrical cables will be jailed for life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat law, with the greatest respect, is not effective during a strike but even if it does, it is a law passed under the military regime of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari in 1984-1985.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further said the law ought to have been amended.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201d I do not know why that legislation has not been amended since the military regime because it has some of the most unreasonable provisions in human history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will say that strike is lawful but there are some activities which are unlawful that workers should not engage in.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are a worker in a unified environment, you have the right to go on strike and if you are going to strike, what you do is shut down your working facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, if you work with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria and you want to go on strike, the radio station will not transmit during that period.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawyer said the same thing applied to the companies that constituted the national grid as they would naturally shut down their services.<\/p>\n

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