By Oladipo Airenakho
Nigeria’s organized labor has called on workers nationwide to turn out en mass on Wednesday in protest of the increase in fuel pump price from N86.50k to N145 by the Buhari administration.
This message was relayed in Benin City on Tuesday to workers in the State by Edo State Chairman of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), Comrade Emmanuel Ademokun in defiance of a recent court order, obtained by the Federal government restraining the organized labor from embarking on industrial action in protest of the fuel pump price increase.
“All workers and working people of Nigeria are requested to turn out en mass to protest on Wednesday 18th May,2016 to express their rejection of the deliberate policy of government to strangulate and impoverish Nigerians,” said Comrade Ademokun.
Apart from resolving to reject the Federal government decision to increase fuel pump price across the country, organized labor and its social partners at its National Executive meeting held on Friday May 13, 2016 also refused to accept the illegal increase in electricity tariff.
The action by Organized labor, said Comrade Ademokun, was a clarion call on the Federal government to wake up to its responsibility of providing better life for Nigerians whom they have pledged to serve.
In response to the court injunction asking that the status quo be maintained by both parties, Comrade Ademokun said organized labor will not accept the ‘black market’ court order arguing that the Federal government has a history of not obeying similar court orders when it does not favor it.
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