In an interview with NAN on Saturday in Kaduna, the Chairman of the chapter, Adetoboye Ayodeji, said it is left for the agency’s management to call the union for negotiation in order to see actionable evidence that things would be done appropriately.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that workers of the agency began an indefinite strike on Oct. 7, to demand the review of the 2024 promotion examinations.
The strike was also to address the allegations that the majority of the staff were not promoted as a result of the purported “vacancy slot” from the Head of Service, even when they all qualified to be promoted.
Ayodeji further asserted that in 2022, certain agency employees were not paid statutory arrears and other benefits. He clarified that an agreement pertaining to the workers’ conditions of service that the unions had previously signed in 2022 with the government and NAFDAC management should have been finalised.
“The agreement’s issues were meant to be resolved in December 2022, however none of the agreements have been followed up on as of yet. “The condition of service could not be approved, and allowances that were supposed to be approved by December 2022 have not been approved,” he bemoaned.
The union had addressed the concerns in multiple letters to the NAFDAC management, according to Ayodeji, but received no satisfactory answer. In 2024, he further claimed, the agency conducted promotion exams, and many of the employees who passed were not promoted. He went on to say that the management’s assertion was brought about by a shortage of openings.
