NLC says place on elimination of petrol subsidies unchanged

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has reiterated its place on the elimination of petrol subsidies, saying that it has not modified.

The NLC in a press release on Saturday in Abuja, was responding to a remark by Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, who can be the spokesperson of the presidential marketing campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Keyamo had requested the NLC of its stand on the Labour Social gathering (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi’s determination to take away gasoline subsidy, if elected.

NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, stated the congress had articulated a Nigerian Staff’ Constitution of Calls for to have interaction the political course of.

“A serious demand within the Nigerian Staff Constitution of Calls for is that our native public refineries should work. We’ve additionally demanded that we should cease 100 per cent importation of refined petroleum merchandise.

“The NLC and certainly the labour motion in Nigeria had over many many years been vehemently constant that the one technique to tackle the problem of the so-called petrol subsidies is to get our refineries to work.

“The logic could be very easy: it isn’t economical to purchase from overseas at very costly costs a product {that a} nation like ours can simply produce at dwelling,” the NLC president added.

He stated the manufacturing economic system was on the coronary heart of their demand on the administration of Nigeria’s mineral assets, particularly the downstream petroleum sub-sector.

He stated the congress believed within the rescue of Nigeria from the present path of consumption economic system to manufacturing economic system as the one technique to resolve the nation’s huge depletion of scarce overseas alternate reserves.

Mr Wabba stated this could resolve the continual devaluation of the Naira, vital jobs discount, poverty and downturn within the residing requirements of the folks.

“In a decided effort to popularise the positions within the Nigerian Staff Constitution of Calls for, the NLC and TUC on the behest of the Labour Social gathering on Monday and Tuesday hosted a Nationwide Retreat of the management cadres in our motion.

“On the retreat, the Labour Social gathering and Organised Labour in Nigeria adopted and mainstreamed the Staff Constitution of Calls for into the Manifesto of the Labour Social gathering.

“That is according to our persuasion that issue-based campaigns anchored on the manifesto of political events ought to drive Nigeria’s political course of.

“If any political social gathering goes round saying that they plan to promote our refineries, take away subsidies, they need to be able to defend such stance to Nigerians on the campaigns.”

Mr Wabba stated that the NLC, Organised Labour, and Labour Social gathering place had not modified, including that “It solely bought amplified.”

(NAN)