Fuel, Electricity Hike: Labour Insists On Reversal

The organized labour has insisted that the Federal Government should revert back to the old prices of petrol and electricity tariff.

The union said the refusal of the FG to revert the tariff implies that the strike action will stand.

This is as the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige and the President of Trade Union Congress, TUC, Comrade Quadri Olaleye, had a hot altercation over the letter to President Muhammadu Buhari to reverse the prices of petrol and electricity tariff.

While the Secretary to the Federal Government, SGF, Boss Mustapha said that deregulation of the Petroleum sector was long overdue, the TUC President maintained its previous position that government should revert to the old prices before any discussion would continue.

In his presentation, the TUC President had told Senator Ngige to withdraw the statement that the centre was not right to write to President Muhammadu Buhari, arguing that as the President of the country all the economic decisions end on his table.