Government to desist from its plan to increase prices of petroleum
products and electricity tariff.
The warning was given Friday by President of NLC Comrade
Abdulwaheed Omar in a statement which was read on his behalf by
the Deputy President of the umbrella labour union Comrade Kiri
Mohammed.
The NLC leader further stated that the labour movement would
embark on a street protest in Abuja next week Thursday to
protest against the planned increase in the prices of petroleum
products and electricity tariff.
According to the statement: “In the midst of mass suffering,
despite our huge natural resources and income, it is provocative for
the government to want to further increase the price of petrol.
Infact this will tantamount to great injustice against the people.“
The NLC President also alleged that the primary motive for this
planned increase in the price of fuel is “the insatiable greed of some
politicians to get more money to squander; they see increases in
fuel prices as more access to the country’s wealth.
“There is also the calculation to render the new National Minimum
wage worthless by embarking on a hyper-inflation-inducing project
like the astronomical increase in the prices of petroleum products”
he alleged.
Omar further warned that the country faces possible eruption by
the masses if the Federal Government goes ahead to hike the price
of fuel against the background of the prevailing situation in the
country.
The Labour leader expressed dismay that the Federal Government
is presenting the worn out argument of the need to remove fuel
subsidy as justification for increasing the price of fuel.
“This was the same trick played on Nigerian people by the Gen.
Ibrahim Babangida military regime in the 80s under the tragedy called
Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)” the NLC leader stated.
Commenting on the planned in electricity tariff, the NLC President
stated that “Yet another plot against the Nigerian people by the
Jonathan administration is the plan by the Nigeria Electricity
Regulatory Commission (NERC) to increase electricity tariff by
between 50 and 100 percent.
He warned that if the Federal Government goes ahead to hike
electricity tariff across the country, the NLC would lead workers
to protest against the move until the tariff is reversed.
Omar also called on the leadership of the Senate to ensure that the
report of its Committee on Privatisation is not killed ,adding that
those who committed crimes against the Nigerian people in the
name of privatization should be brought to justice.
The NLC leader also warned against moves by those in Government
to amend the Constitution such that fixing of minimum wage which
is currently under the exclusive legislative list would be shifted to
the concurrent list so that state governments could fix salaries as
they wish.
He also urged workers in states whose governments have not
shown readiness to pay the minimum wage to embark on strike.
These states include Imo, Ekiti, Yobe, Adamawa, Kaduna, katsina,
Ebonyi, Anambra and Enugu.
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