Tinubu’s policies: We can’t be cowed into submission – NLC
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said it “will not be cowed into submission” due to the policies of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration.
In its statement issued on Tuesday, the labour union said the government betrayed it by increasing petrol price, despite it assuring it would not during the negotiation for the recently approved N70, 000 minimum wage.
“We recall vividly when Mr President gave us the devil’s alternatives to choose from: either N250,000 as minimum wage (subject to the rise of the pump price between N1,500 and N2,000) and N70,000 (at old pms rates), we opted for the latter because we could not bring ourselves to accept further punishment on Nigerians.
But here we are, barely one month after and with government yet to commence payment of the new national minimum wage, confronted by a reality we cannot explain.It is both traumatic and nightmarish,” the labour organization said.
In addition, the NLC said it had already suspected the government nursed a plan to unleash “sinister policies government” even before it announced the petrol price hike. Labour said it is “resolute”, pro-people and it would not be “distracted nor intimidated by the government or its security agencies.”
It urged the government to reverse the hike in petrol price and electricity tariffs, and to release detained protesters.
