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NLC Threatens to Paralyse Country’s Economy
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NLC Threatens to Paralyse Country’s Economy
By Hussaini Ibrahim Sulaiman Kano
Following the unresolved demands by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) issued to the Federal Government over the issue of fuel subsidy removal that coerced the Labour to embarked on two-day warning strike, last week, the Congress has further threatened indefinite nationwide strike.
The National Assistant General Secretary of the Congress, Mr Christopher Onyeka, contended that and alleged injustice in the mode of palliative distribution.
He stressed that if the deadline for the implementation of post-subsidy palliatives end next week without proper solution, they’ll not hesitate to launch its indefinite strike.
According to Onyeka, the Federal Government has failed to honour its promise to restructure the committees for negotiating the palliatives. Even though President Bola Tinubu made this pledge on television to the President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, there has been no progress in the dialogue.
Onyeka also expressed his discontent with the palliative provided to Nigerians. He stated that it was an insult to distribute a bag of rice to a ward and term it a palliative, while the government handed legislators N70 billion and each of them received more than N100 million.
“The FG is buying cars and houses of over N100m for each person and Nigerians are keeping quiet as if what is going on is a normal thing. NLC calls Nigerians to join hands together because they cannot do it alone,” he added.
