Alleged irregularities: Scrap dealers embark on 15-day warning strike
KANO (North-West, Nigeria) — The National Association of Scraps and Waste Dealers employers of Nigeria (NASWDEN), has embarked on a 15-day warning strike nationwide to cut off supply of scraps to iron melting companies in the country.
The Deputy National President, Aminu Hassan-Soja disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Kano.
Hassan-Soja said the warning strike was a result of numerous complaints leveled against the companies.
He said the complaints ranges from alleged irregularities in transaction with the foreign companies, cut down in prices of their scrap metals, engage in substandard irons that could be responsible for rampant building collapse.
Others, he said, included manipulation of their scales and also the foreign companies take away their jobs because they open dump sites.
Hassan-Soja said the association would suspend the strike if the federal government and the affected companies addressed their grievances.
He warned that the warning strike action could become indefinite if no reconciliation was reached within the 15-day warning period.
“We call on our members to embark on our warning strike for 15 days, starting from today, Oct. 1.
“If we have a reconciliation with the companies, we may call off the strike. But if we don’t have a reconciliation, we will go indefinite.
“So, we are seeking for federal government intervention into the matter. Otherwise, these people are sabotaging our economy.
“They are undermining our economy. They are sending a lot of youths out of the jobs,” he claimed
Hassan-Soja, maintained that the scrap industry, aside agriculture, employs millions of Nigerians, particularly youths and should be formally integrated into the Nigerian economy.
He, however, called on the federal government to come in and formalize the sector by collaborating with it so that indigenous people can also establish such kind of companies established by foreigners.
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