The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has explained the reasons for its
nationwide strike, now turned ‘protests’ after its meeting with the
Federal Government was deadlocked on Tuesday.
NLC President Ayuba
Wabba and his group had walked out of a meeting with the Federal
Government representatives led by the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal.
According to him, the government refused to reverse the N145 increase of petrol pump price, among other issues.
“The
issue and the mandate we have is to the effect that the generality of
Nigerian workers feel that the pump price of N145 per litre is too
outrageous and out of proportion.
“Therefore, it is something that
with the hard economic situation, it is very difficult for them to go
by, especially in the context of the quantum of the increase.
“Therefore, even the attempt to try to see how this can be mitigated was not actually made possible at the meeting.
We thought that we should not continue in a process where we think
the end product has not been able to meet our minimum expectation and
this would not bring succour to the larger Nigerian public.
“It is
on this decision, we thought that it is not necessary for us to
continue in the process as the mandate given to us by the NEC today is
the effect of reversal of the pump price especially.
He added that the NLC position was to discontinue with the meeting and embark on the planned strike.
On
the ruling of the Industrial Court restraining the NLC from embarking
on the planned strke, Wabba said that the congress had not received any
court ruling.
“We are not aware of any court ruling that has been
served on NLC; we have not been served and I can say that as we are
here, we have also informed them that we are not aware of any court
ruling.
“We have not been put on notice and we are not aware,’’ Wabba insisted.
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