The Federal Government on Monday backtracking and withdrawing its contempt suit filed against leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC for organising nationwide anti-subsidy protests on August 2, 2023.
The development came barely five days after the Federal Ministry of Justice sued the organised labour leaders for allegedly disobeying a court order barring them from leading the nationwide protest.
The National Industrial Court had stopped organised labour from going on strike but human rights lawyer and counsel to the organised labour, Femi Falana, insisted the union could proceed on the protest.
Last Wednesday evening, the organised labour met with President Bola Tinubu after the protests and reached an agreement to end the one-day protest.
However, the Federal Ministry of Justice on Monday said the government had backtracked from going ahead with the contempt suit
The letter, signed by the Permanent Secretary, Beatrice Jeddy-Agba, stated that the ministry filed the contempt proceedings before the interventions of the President and the National Assembly.
