The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) declared on Wednesday that as a result of President Bola Tinubu’s remark that “Subsidy is gone” on May 29, 2023, Nigerians have lost their peace.
The labour congress criticised the Tinubu administration for its “unfriendly” policies and added that the administration had continued to treat Nigerians like slaves in a statement issued in Abuja and jointly signed by the national president Joe Ajaero and Secretary-General Emmanuel Ugboaja.
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However, the NLC stated that should the government not accede to all of its demands, including the immediate cancellation of all “anti-poor policies such as the hike in price of Premium Motor Spirit; increase in public school fees; increase in Value Added Tax among others,” it would call for a nationwide strike on August 2, 2023.
The statement partly reads, “The Central Working Committee of the NLC observed that the Federal Government has shown enormous disdain and contempt for Nigerian people and workers having acted and continued to act without regard to the welfare and cries of the citizenry.
“That Government seems to have declared a war of attrition on Nigerian workers and masses without any care leaving them to the throes of hopelessness and helplessness; the Federal Government has refused to put in place safeguards to protect Nigerians from the harsh economic situation that its policies have inflicted on the people rather it has decided to insult the sensibilities of Nigerian masses by offering us N8,000 per family and offering themselves N70bn.”
The congress also noted that it had reached a breaking point hence it would, “give the Federal Government a seven-day ultimatum within which to meet all our demands and to embark on a nationwide action beginning Wednesday the 2nd of August, 2023 to compel the government to reverse its anti-poor and anti-workers policies.”
