Insists governors proposal provocative, insensitive
The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has rejected the Nigerian Governors Forums proposal of between N380 and N408 per litre of petrol in the country.
According to a communiqu issued at the end of its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Tuesday in Abuja and signed by the President, Ayuba Wabba and its Acting General Secretary, Isma’il Bello, the NLC described the governors recommendation as provocative, arbitrary, and insensitive to the current economic realities in the country. The communiqu was made available to newsmen yesterday.
The NLC insisted that any increase in petrol pump price, even by one cent would attract an immediate withdrawal of services by Nigerian workers all over the country without any further notice”.
The Congress also resolved to write to the Federal Government about the plight and concerns of workers on the governors proposals as well as its stance on the matter.
The NLC insisted that the only sustainable solution to the crisis of fuel importation and associated dislocations in the downstream subsector of the petroleum industry is the rehabilitation of the four refineries in the country.
The governors had on May 20 recommended a petrol pump price of between N380 and N408 per litre, as well as the immediate removal of fuel subsidy to save the nations economy.
They insisted that the current subsidy regime was unsustainable because smugglers and illegal markets in neigbouring African countries were the beneficiaries of the arrangement.
