{"id":66448,"date":"2018-12-03T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66448"},"modified":"2018-12-03T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T08:44:29","slug":"protesters-to-shut-down-national-assembly-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=66448","title":{"rendered":"Protesters to shut down National Assembly Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/news_national_assembly_complex-702x336.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">National Assembly staff under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), have fixed Dec. 4 to stage a protest over unpaid salaries and allowances.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Suleiman Haruna, the union\u2019s Secretary-General, announced this in a statement in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Haurna said the first phase of the protest would take place between Dec. 4 and Dec. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The association said the move had become necessary following nonchalant attitude of the national assembly leadership  to their demands.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the action would be a blend of protest and picketing of offices within the assembly, adding that the union would not tolerate default from members.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the action will commence between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily within the stipulated days.<\/p>\n<p>Haruna explained that members were demanding to be put on the Consolidated Legislative Salary Structure (CONLESS).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, all pending staff promotions and conversion letters should be released with arrears fully paid on or before Dec.31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe association has already issued a two-week ultimatum to the management to fulfill these demands or face strike,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Assembly staff under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), have fixed Dec. 4 to stage a protest over unpaid salaries and allowances. Mr Suleiman Haruna, the union\u2019s Secretary-General, announced this in a statement in Abuja. Haurna said the first phase of the protest would take place between Dec. 4 and Dec. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[503],"class_list":["post-66448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-national-assembly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}