NLC Rejects Gbajabiamila’s Leadership of Negotiation Committee

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, has expressed strong reservations about the capacity of Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila to lead meaningful deliberations on the Panel set up to discuss concrete plans to mitigate the effect of fuel subsidy removal.

Ajaero made the declaration on Tuesday at a meeting with the leadership of the Senate.

The NLC President lamented that the Wage Award Committee set up by by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was yet to meet, two months after it was constituted.

He further accused the present administration of indifference to the plight of Nigerian workers as he noted that removal of subsidy was announced without putting palliatives on ground to ameliorate the effect on Nigerians.

Further raising concern on the lack of sincerity on the part of the federal government in its relationship with workers, Ajaero told President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio that while Labour leaders were still deliberating on N537 per liter of fuel and Court had ruled for status quo to remain , the Tinubu administration increased the fuel to N617 per liter.

On the $800 million borrowing to cushion effect of subsidy removal, the NLC President further cautioned the federal government not to use the record used by the past administration in the disbursement of palliatives to Nigerians.