According to Mr. Ambali Olatunji, the national president of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, the union is prepared to participate in the Oct.3.
Due to the hardship caused by the Federal Government’s removal of the oil subsidy, the Nigeria Labour Congress earlier announced an indefinite strike that would begin on Tuesday, October 3, 2023.
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After the Ondo State Chapter of the NULGE elected a new executive, I spoke in Akure on Sunday, Oct.
Olatunji announced that the union would join the strike on February 2.
He declared, “Providing leadership is the only way to stop President Bola Tinubu’s NLC strike. Mr. President announced this hardship for Nigeria on May 29 without taking the necessary steps to thoroughly research the economic indicators. We are aware that the previous administration misled him, and any policy that causes hardship for the populace must be modified.
We do not oppose the withdrawal of the subsidy, but there must be a system in place to lessen the impact of its elimination.
Nigeria is the only oil-producing country in the world that is unable to refine crude oil because of its corruption and inefficiency.
We don’t need to use hard currency to refine our crude oil, so why should we suffer that, why should we carry that burden, why can’t we group those Niger Delta operators of modular refineries together, develop their skills, grant them licenses, and also collect taxes from them, so that this would be internal, why are we going after them to destroy their refineries when we don’t have the capacity to do it?
“Governments all over the world subsidized one thing or another.
That President Tinubu is following Buhari and others in doing so surprises us.
Pay 50% gratitude to pensioners, those who are dying, and those who are committing suicide if you truly want to practice palliative care.
We think the size of the government is too big; you can’t tell us to tighten our belts while you’re loosening your own. Ministers should be no older than 25 to 26; all others should have special advisers.
We ought to succeed.
