Fuel Subsidy: Senate Urges NLC To Shelve Impending Strike
The Senate has mandated the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the entire leadership of the upper chamber to interface between the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Federal Government in order to avert the intending strike of the NLC.
Meanwhile, the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio has said that their earnings here at the National Assembly were not enough to take care of themselves.
The resolution of the Senate on Monday was a sequel to a motion titled, “Urgent Need to Avert the Intending Strike of the Nigeria Labour Congress,”
The motion was sponsored by Senator Kawu Suleiman Abdulrahman, NNPP, Kano South.
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Presenting the motion, Senator Abdulrahman said that the Senate “Notes that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has given the Federal Government a seven-day ultimatum toReverse what the union termed as “anti-poor policies or face an indefinite nationwide strike from Wednesday 2nd August 2023.
“Also notes that the NLC has directed all its affiliates and state councils to immediately begin mobilization of workers and other Nigerians, including civil society allies, for a long-lasting strike and mass protests.
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Aware that the labour movement in a statement signed by its National President accused the Federal Government of failing to meet up with the demands it presented to it following the removal of the subsidy on petrol, which caused an astronomical rise in the pump price of the commodity.
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