BankBy Onyewuchi Ojinnaka
The pro-labour civil society organisations, CSOs, under the umbrella of Joint Action Front,(JAF), have lambasted the organised labour comprising majorly the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) for suspending the nationwide strike scheduled to commence Monday, September 28 over recent increase in electricity tariff and petrol pump price.
JAF accused the organised labour of a sellout and described the suspension of the strike as a death pill for Nigerians and a betrayal of the masses confidence, a slavery to IMF and World Bank.
In a sharp reaction to the suspended strike by JAF, its Secretary, Abiodun Aremu, lamented that by agreeing to “suspend the strike that ought to have started this morning(Monday), organised labour has accepted deregulation of the downstream of the petroleum industry.”
“It is a death pill on workers and the poor masses. It is Nigeria for sale to IMF and World Bank.”
An anonymous comment on the suspended strike said that money has exchanged hands, hence the suspension of the strike by labour leaders.