EconomyLabourNLC Vows to Shut Down Nigeria if Governors’ Proposed Petrol Price of N380 To N408 is Adopted

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has reiterated its opposition to the proposal of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) that subsidy should be removed and petrol pump price would be sold between N380 and N408 per liter.

The union described the governors’ recommendation as provocative, arbitrary and insensitive to the current economic realities in the country and the extreme hardship that Nigerians are going through, especially workers.

The congress threatened that any increase by even one percent in the price of petroleum products, especially Premium Motor Spirit “will attract an immediate withdrawal of services by Nigerian workers all over the country without any further notice.’’

In a communiqué issued by the National Executive Committee of the NLC after its meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, the congress resolved to write officially to the Federal Government about the pains and concerns of workers on the NGF proposals as well as its stance on the matter.

The statement which was signed by the NLC President Ayuba Wabba, and the acting General Secretary, Ismail Bello and made available to journalists in Abuja on Thursday, disclosed that the congress still stands solidly by its decision taken at its meeting on February 17, 2021, to reject further increases in the price of refined petroleum products.

The NEC also reiterated its decision that the only sustainable way out of the crisis of fuel importation and associated dislocations in the downstream petroleum subsector was for the government to rehabilitate all four public refineries in the country and build new ones.

The NLC disclosed that there is currently no negotiation with the government over fuel price increase, saying that the last meeting with the government in February 2021 was indefinitely adjourned.

The communiqué read, “The NEC-in-Session also viewed the proposal by the Nigeria Governors Forum for a three hundred per cent increase in the price of petrol as the height of provocation, arbitrariness, detachment and insensitivity to the current economic realities in the country and the extreme hardship that Nigerians, especially workers are going through.

“The NEC also noted that there is currently no negotiation with government over fuel price increase. The NEC recalled that the last meeting with the government in February 2021 was adjourned sine die. Since then, no other meeting has been called by government.

“The NEC resolved that any decision to increase by even one cent the price of refined petroleum products, especially PMS will attract an immediate withdrawal of services by Nigerian workers all over the country without any further notice.”

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)

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