– NLC laments that the current
fuel scarcity has reduced Nigerians in all parts of the nation to compulsory trekkers– Demands for the federal government talk to Nigerian workers and the masses on why they should continue to put trust and patience with the administration– Laments that the extent of suffering currently experienced in thenation has not occurred throughout Nigeria’s historyThe Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the federal governmentto urgently address the persistent fuel scarcity across the nation or face an industrial action.The NLC issued the warning on Monday, April 4, at a briefing in Lagosby its factional president, Comrade Joe Ajaero, along with his deputy, Achese Igwe who doubles as the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) president, The Nation reports.
The NLC said: “Electricity has become an essential commodity, public utilities have since gone to thedogs, petroleum products have grown wings and vanished, compounding an already bad transport system, reducing Nigeriansin all parts of the nation to compulsory trekkers.“Having observed the increasing alarm and seeming confusion within the corridors of power on possible solutions to the socio-economic quagmire, we make haste to say that Nigeria is indeed at crossroads todayand the extent of suffering is such that this nation has not witnessed throughout its history.It demanded for the federal government quickly talk to Nigerian workers and the masses on why theyshould continue put trust and patience with the administration.
“We urge them to tell us why we should not be in the streets calling for mass resignations of officers of this government, and to also tell us why we should not be worried when all the macro-economic indices are moving downwards,”NLC said.Meanwhile,hoodlums attacked a sales representative of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at the Mega station in Osogbo, Osun state over a dispute related to buying fuel. Mr Wale Olayinka was working, when gangsters broke into the station and pounced on him, repeatedly kicking and punching him in the face until he collapsed.
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