National Telescope national telescope newspaper
By Bose Adelakun
The Nigeria Labour Congress has insisted that its planned nationwide strike will hold unfailingly.
This is as the group commenced mass mobilisation scheduled to begin Wednesday to protest the hardship occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal.
The group in a schedule in Abuja on Sunday, called on Nigerians to assemble at the Unity Fountain, Abuja on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at 7 am.”
It reads, “There is nowhere in the world where government leaves its citizens totally to the vagaries of the market without some measure of control and protection. The Federal Government should immediately deal decisively with the criminal content of subsidy instead of exposing ordinary citizens to avoidable pain and hardship.
“As a matter of national importance, it is imperative to fix all our refineries to be able to cater to domestic fuel consumption”
According to NLC, the protest is in view of the recent monetary policies of the Federal Government.
While describing the policies of the Tinubu-led administration as Anti-policy, NLC insisted that the policies must be reversed while the withheld salaries of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, among others should be released.
“We are concerned that no government acting reasonably leaves its national currency to forces of the market.”
Ahead of its meeting with the Federal Government scheduled to be held today (Monday) and the nationwide strike scheduled to begin on Wednesday, the NLC said the Tinubu-led administration was playing games with the lives of Nigerians.
