‘’So, we are hopeful that they will do the needful and call off the strike tomorrow,’’ Gbajabiamila said.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that the Federal Government is confident the labour unions would call off their proposed strike scheduled to begin on Wednesday.
Gbajabiamila stated this while briefing reporters after a closed-door meeting with the leadership of the unions on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said that the unions have accepted the proposal for palliatives announced on Monday by President Bola Tinubu in a nationwide broadcast on developments around fuel subsidy removal.
‘’We appealed to labour to call off their strike tomorrow. And they all agreed that Mr President’s broadcast was a welcome development and they will go back home to talk to the leaders that are not here today.
‘’So, we are hopeful that they will do the needful and call off the strike tomorrow,’’ Gbajabiamila said.
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National President of the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, said: “We think for example, that 3,000 buses are not sufficient. By the time you divide 3,000 by 37, you will see how many they would come up to.”
He noted that the issue of minimum wage was a legal thing that requires constitutional amendment and that there was no time for such now.
‘’But we said for the immediate, let the federal government come with wage award just like some state government have announced that they will be paying N40,000 or N50,000. So they should do something like that,” Osifo said.
