SUBSIDY REMOVAL: NLC Insists On Nationwide Strike Come Wednesday Unless FG Returns To Status Quo On Fuel Pump Price

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The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has debunked speculations that it might back down on its proposed industrial action slated nationwide for Wednesday.   

In a statement by its Head of Information and Public Affairs, Benson Upah, NLC said the strike could only be shelves if the Federal Government and the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited NNPCL did the needful by returning to status quo on the fuel subsidy removal issue.  

It described the report in a national newspaper purporting that the North and South-West would back out of the strike as laughable and a desperate attempt by enemies of the people to polarize the Organized Labour along ethnic or regional lines on an issue with a national spread.   

According to the statement, “this scenario only plays in their imagination as Nigeria Labour Congress continues to be the biggest pan-Nigerian organisation united by a common vision/ mission and shared national values.   

“On the looming strike, we want to assure that all the affiliate unions of the Congress stand together with an unshakeable resolve to prosecute, come Wednesday, except the NNPC and Government do the needful.   

“Whereas, primordial sentiments such as religion, region or ethnicity may be refuge for some, at the Nigeria Labour Congress, they have no place.

“What counts for us are issues such as the mindless and criminal increase in the pump price of PMS whose burden will be borne by the already impoverished communities of the poor across Nigeria”, it stated.   

NLC said the burden of the malevolent policy would not be borne by other segments of the country to the exclusion of the North or South-West, hence, there was no reason for those regions to back out of the strike.  

Recall that the President, Bola Tinubu had, during his inaugural speech, declared that the era of subsidy for petroleum products was gone, a development that has had ripple effect on the Nigerian polity since May 29, 2023. 

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