The NLC wrote Tinubu through Senate President Godswill Akpabio, saying the government breached an agreement with the labour unions.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has written a protest letter to President Bola Tinubu, informing him of the reasons for the nationwide workers’ protest.
The Organised Labour on Wednesday kicked off its protest against the “anti-people” policies of the President Tinubu’s administration in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, and other states of the Federation including Lagos,Benue, Abia, Plateau, Kaduna, Kano, Rivers, Zamfara, Katsina, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Kwara, Ogun, Imo, Ondo, and Edo.
Top officials of the NLC and TUC joined the protest in the Federal Capital Territory starting from the Unity Fountain with hundreds of their members.
Affiliated unions of the NLC and the TUC including the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), the National Union of Electricity Employees of Nigeria (NUEE), National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) also joined the nationwide protest.
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In a letter dated August 2, 2023, the NLC wrote Tinubu through Senate President Godswill Akpabio, saying the government breached an agreement with the labour unions by going further with more anti-people policies.
The letter titled “Nigerian workers and peoples are undergoing massive suffering and deprivation as a result of your policies” was signed by NLC President Joe Ajaero and General Secretary Emmanuel Ugboaja.
The NLC said it is protesting to show that the government is drifting into dictatorship, to show government’s act of bad faith by refusing to give effect to the resolutions earlier made among others.
The union stood its ground that the government must reverse all anti-poor policies, release eight months withheld salaries of university lecturers and workers, fix local refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna among others.