Labour Union react to increase in fuel pump price
Press Statement by Nigeria Labour Congress
We Shall Resist This Increase
The unilateral increase in prices of petroleum
products today by government represents the
height of insensitivity and impunity and shall be
resisted by the Nigeria Labour Congress and its
civil society allies.
With the imposition on the citizenry of criminal
and unjustifiable electricity tariff and resultant
darkness and other economic challenges brought
on by the devaluation of the Naira and spiraling
inflation, the least one had expected at this point
in time was another policy measure that would
further make life more miserable for the ordinary
Nigerian.
The latest increase is the most audacious and
cruel in the history of product price increase as
It represents not only about 80 per cent increase
but it is tied to the black market exchange rate.
Further more, the process through which
government arrived at this is both illogical and
illegal as the board of the PPPRA is not duly
constituted. In our previous statements and
communiques, we had stressed the need for
reconstituting the boards of NNPC and PPPRA
and wean both away from the overbearing
influence of the Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources who has assumed the role of a Sole
Administrator.
The allusion to the fact that the this increase
was arrived at after due consultation with stake
holders is not only ridiculous and fallacious, it
goes to show that the brief meeting held today
during which government was advised to shelve
the idea until at least it meets with the
appropriate organs of the Congress was in bad
faith.
Accordingly, we urge the government to revert
the prices to what they were. We would want to
put everybody on notice that we shall resist this
criminal increase with every means legitimate.
Already an emergency NEC meeting has been
scheduled for Friday, May 13, 2016 to decide on
the next line of action. Meanwhile, our affiliates,
state councils and civil society allies are
requested to commence mobilization
immediately.
Dr Peter Ozo-Eson
General Secretary
We Shall Resist This Increase
The unilateral increase in prices of petroleum
products today by government represents the
height of insensitivity and impunity and shall be
resisted by the Nigeria Labour Congress and its
civil society allies.
With the imposition on the citizenry of criminal
and unjustifiable electricity tariff and resultant
darkness and other economic challenges brought
on by the devaluation of the Naira and spiraling
inflation, the least one had expected at this point
in time was another policy measure that would
further make life more miserable for the ordinary
Nigerian.
The latest increase is the most audacious and
cruel in the history of product price increase as
It represents not only about 80 per cent increase
but it is tied to the black market exchange rate.
Further more, the process through which
government arrived at this is both illogical and
illegal as the board of the PPPRA is not duly
constituted. In our previous statements and
communiques, we had stressed the need for
reconstituting the boards of NNPC and PPPRA
and wean both away from the overbearing
influence of the Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources who has assumed the role of a Sole
Administrator.
The allusion to the fact that the this increase
was arrived at after due consultation with stake
holders is not only ridiculous and fallacious, it
goes to show that the brief meeting held today
during which government was advised to shelve
the idea until at least it meets with the
appropriate organs of the Congress was in bad
faith.
Accordingly, we urge the government to revert
the prices to what they were. We would want to
put everybody on notice that we shall resist this
criminal increase with every means legitimate.
Already an emergency NEC meeting has been
scheduled for Friday, May 13, 2016 to decide on
the next line of action. Meanwhile, our affiliates,
state councils and civil society allies are
requested to commence mobilization
immediately.
Dr Peter Ozo-Eson
General Secretary
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