Fuel hike, other anti-poor policies: A declaration of war on workers, masses — NLC

The recent increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit, or PMS, also known as gasoline, and other allegedly anti-poor policies, according to the Nigeria Labour Congress, or NLC, are instruments of war against Nigerian workers and the general populace.

According to NLC, poor economic management does not at all include depriving employees of their means of subsistence and forcing millions of people into a life of misery.

In a speech during the opening ceremony of a four-day program for leaders of NLC state councils in the south that was held in Lagos, NLC President Joe Ajaero declared that the Nigerian state has essentially declared war on the nation’s working class and masses.

In the program sponsored by the American Solidarity Center, Ajaero, who was represented by Prince Adewale Adeyanju, President-General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, and Deputy President of Congress, stressed that trade union leaders must not leave the Nigerian people and workers to their fate.

The president of the NLC stated that labor leaders from all over the nation “must all join hands in the struggle for the articulation and protection of Nigerian workers’ and people’s rights with all hope that workers of Nigeria will one day reclaim their natural rights that have been forcibly curtailed and trampled upon by uninformed employers and those in government who ought to have been in the vanguard of guaranteeing such rights.