The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has enunciated reasons it is calling for an indefinite nationwide strike from Wednesday, in concert with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and civil society organizations, to protest the increase in pump price of petrol from N86.50 to N145 per litre and force a reversal. It is based on this that we extracted the reasons enunciated by Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, the General Secretary of the NLC in his own words below
1. Given the harsh economic times in which Nigerians are living, which have been further compounded initially by the hike in electricity tariff, this is not the time to visit another hardship on Nigerians. The economic crisis that the nation is facing already has major negative impact on workers. An average worker on current wage cannot survive because the real wage has been so badly eroded. If we compound it (the problem) through this, we are going to find a situation where there would be conditions that would completely destabilize the workers and their families

2.We are having a government now directing importers of petroleum products to go into the black market to source for foreign exchange. We think this is a recipe for economic crisis because what will happen is that when the volume of the demand for foreign exchange needed to fund importation of products is moved into the black market, the value of the naira is going to crash. And if that were to happen, it has implications on the overall economy itself.

3.A situation where the domestic price of PMS (Premium Motor Spirit) will now be determined by forces in the black market exchange rate is something that is not good for the economy and we are opposed to it.

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Not genuine enough to call for strike

This is the most confused government I have seen.
Fuel queue is back in our filling stations despite the fact that the price is N145 per litre
Black marketers are back to sell at N300 per litre
What will happen when there is shortage of dollar?
Importers will not be ablle to import and we are back to square one

I think NLC and TUC comrades should be learned?
#itsapity