NLC To Embark On Nationwide Strike Wednesday
NLC
has planned to embark on a nationwide strike on Wednesday amid the fuel
shortages currently being experienced across the country. The fuel shortages are
the result of the inaugural speech of President Tinubu where he declared that “fuel subsidy is gone”.
Joe
Ajaero the NLC president announced after the union`s executive made an emergency
meeting in Abuja the Nation`s capital.
The
NLC president gave the government particularly, the Nigerian National Petroleum
Company (NNPC) an ultimatum of Wednesday to revert to the old price of Premium
Motor Spirit otherwise referred to as petrol.
According to Ajaero,
failure of the government to meet the deadline would attract an indefinite
protest across the country.
During his inaugural speech at the eagle
square in Abuja on Monday, The President said that the 2023 budget made no
provision for the payment of subsidy adding that the payment is no longer
justifiable. “Fuel subsidy is gone”. He said. Instead of subsidy, the government
would channel funds into infrastructure and other areas to strengthen the
economy.
The announcement from the president led to
fuel scarcity across the country with Nigerians staying in long queues just to
get the product.
Tinubu's decision has received backing from
the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL) and the House of
Representatives. The NLC and the Trade Union Congress has since resisted the
decision.
Organized labor has argued that the president
cannot unilaterally decide on subsidy removal.
Festus Osifo, the TUC president has come
out to say there is a reason the past Government pushed this sensitive issue to
the new government.
Hours-long meetings between the Federal government
and the NLC ended without a consensus.
Representatives from the
federal government included Dele Alake, included Dele Alake, the spokesperson
for President Bola Tinubu; the Group CEO of the NNPC, Mele Kyari, Governor of
the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele; and former Edo State
Governor Adams Oshiomhole.
On the Organized labor’s
side, the NLC National President, Joe Ajaero; and the President of the Trade
Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Festus Osifo, were present.
The NLC demanded that the
Federal Government return to the status quo by reversing the price of fuel
before resuming negotiations with labor.
According to Ajaero, the latest announcement
was rejected because Federal Government did not enter into any conversation
even on palliative measures for Nigerians.
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