Whichi has seen the pump price of fuel skyrocketing from around N185 to around N500, and again and rose further to N617 despite court order restraining further increase in June.
The NLC sent a strong warning on Monday during an address by its President, Joe Ajaero, delivered at the African Alliance of Trade Unions Executive Meeting in Abuja
“As we’re here now, they’re contemplating increasing the pump price of petroleum products. And the Ministry of Labour, for some time now, will only go to the Ministry of Justice to come up with a so-called injunction to hold the hands of labour not to respond,” Ajaero said.
“But let me say this, Nigerian workers will not give any notice if we have not addressed the “consequences of the last two increases and we wake up from our sleep to hear that they have tampered with it again — the prices.”
The meeting, which had in attendance Labour executives from Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa, also advised the ECOWAS leadership against the plan to deploy the military to the Niger Republic to restore the democratic order.
