Begins mobilisation
Following the news of the Federal Governments plan to increase fuel pump price to N340, the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has vowed to ground economic activities across the country, adding that it has started mobilisation of its members for the showdown.
Recall that the Federal Government recently announced its readiness to withdraw subsidies on petroleum products as from next year, saying that the burden of the subsidy was too heavy to bear.
The NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, who disclosed this during the opening ceremony of 17th NLC Harmattan School in Ilorin, Kwara State, vowed that Labour would resist the attempt by the government to increase the fuel price without making adequate arrangements to cushion the effect.
He contended that if the government succeeds in the plan, the impact of the price hike will affect every Nigerian, motorists, households, transporters, and others.
Wabba lamented that out of the OPEC member countries, it was only Nigeria that was following the International Monetary Fund, (IMF), policies, which he described as neo-liberal.
He said if the Government does not reverse the policy, it would adversely affect wage earners and rubbish the minimum wage, adding that it was on that basis that the organised labour decided to engage in the process.
