The Nigeria Labour Congress is organizing a two-day statewide demonstration, and the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria announced that it will participate.
Kennedy Ikemefuna, Head of Media, MWUN, made a statement on Monday that included this information. The action was required in response to the NLC’s demand that all of its affiliate members in the country adhere to.
The NLC has earlier said that a countrywide demonstration would take place on Tuesday and Wednesday in response to the government’s purported inability to carry out the agreements that both parties arrived upon on October 2, 2023, when the fuel subsidy was removed.
The decision was made after the Federal Government was given a 14-day ultimatum to take action against the widespread misery. “As instructed by the Nigeria Labour Congress following its NEC-in-session meeting held on Monday, in Abuja, directing all its affiliate members across the nation to strictly comply,”
“The MWUN would join the Nigeria Labour Congress’s two-day nationwide protest holding on the 27-28th of February 2024,” because it is an NLC affiliate.
He continued by saying that the Federal Government’s reluctance to uphold the deal struck with Congress in October 2023 is the reason behind the protest.
“The congress feels that if the bargain had been honored and carried out, it would have significantly lessened the pain and suffering that the poorly thought out and badly executed policies have inflicted upon the citizens of the country and Nigerian Workers,” Ikechukwu stated.
