The banking and financial sector of Guinea, gathered under the Autonomous Trade Union Federation of Banks, Insurance and Micro Finance (FESABAG), staged a strike in Conakry on Thursday to protest against the growing insecurity of which its workers have been victims of late.
The work stoppage in the banking sector will continue through Friday across the country, while work resumption is scheduled for 2 November.
The headquarters of some private banks in Conakry, and their subsidiaries were vacant early in the morning.
In the district of Kaloum, the administrative and business center, offices were also closed and parking lots were empty, while an unusual silence was reigning at the storefronts of major banks.
Only the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea was open.
This call for work stoppage in the banking sector comes at a rather critical moment, because with this end of month, workers in both the public and private sectors need to collect their wages from banking tellers in order to meet their daily expenses.
Through this two-day strike, FESABAG intends to protest against the growing insecurity prevailing in the country, which adds to the “harassment, untimely and fanciful summoning” of workers in the banking and insurance sector.
For example, the Managing Director of “First International Bank”, Ibrahima Diallo, was kidnapped on Monday in a suburb of Conakry for several hours before being dispossessed of his vehicle and properties.
Other such actions could follow, FESABAG warned in its statement, if the climate of insecurity and harassment persists in the banking sector.
Source African Press Agency
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