The Nigeria Labour Congess (NLC) has announced it will embark on a nationwide strike from Wednesday, June 7, if the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) did not revert to the old pump prices of fuel.
NLC President Joe Ajaero made the announcement after an emergency meeting of the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) in Abuja on Friday, June 2.
He said NNPCL have till Wednesday to return to the old price of N194 per litre or it would direct its members to withdraw their services nationwide.
According to him, “The NLC decided that if by Wednesday next week the NNPCL, a private limited liability company, that illegally announced a price regime in the oil sector, refuses to announce revert itself for negotiation to continue, that the NLC and all its affiliates, will withdraw their services and commence protests nationwide until this is complied with.
The NNPCL doesn’t have the monopoly to act illegally even as a private company. The NLC NEC therefore directed all state councils and all industrial unions to commence mobilisation from this moment to make sure that this action is enforced. The action has commenced at this moment.”
He also called for a probe of the subsidy regime in the past eight years, the amount paid on subsidy and the beneficiaries of the payment.
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