TUC Gives Govt 2 Weeks Ultimatum Over Fuel Subsidy Negotiation
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday, gave the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum to conclude negotiations or face workers’ protest.
TUC threatened that if after August 19, nothing tangible was concluded it would be forced to take further action to protect members and the masses from unending hardship.
Briefing journalists in Abuja, the TUC President, Festus Osifo, among others, said “As of today we have formed technical committees on cash transfers, on intervention fund on reduction of cost of governance, on energy and power (developing compressed Natural Gas, CNG as an alternative to PMS) and fixing of refineries.
We also have technical committees on education and health and Mass Transit. Our position is that government should fast-track action and processes concluded to ensure that the sufferings of Nigerians are ameliorated.
“Government gave a timeline of eight weeks, beginning from June 19, and if you do your calculation, eight weeks is going to end by August 19. So, far we have stayed for more than one month and we felt that we are not going at the speed we anticipated we want the government to fast tract action to ensure that between now and the next two weeks all the committees must have submitted their report so that the Presidential Steering Committee can conclude its work immediately because we cannot continue to blow big, big grammar while Nigerians are suffering and people are trekking long distances to work.”
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