Fuel Price Hike: Court Orders NLC, TUC To Halt Proposed Nationwide Protest, Strike

The National Industrial Court has issued a restraining order stopping the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) from going ahead with their planned nationwide strike scheduled for Monday.

The order is sequel to ex parte application filed by the Incorporated Trustees of Peace and Unity Ambassadors Association,

Both unions had directed tworkers to embark on an indefinite strike pending when the federal government reverts to the old pump price of petrol and adjust the electricity tariff.

But in his ruling, a judge, Ibrahim Galadima, asks the NLC and TUC to suspend the strike and protest.

The judge also restrained the unions, their officers, affiliates, privies from disrupting, restraining, picketing or preventing the workers or its affiliates or ordinary Nigerians from “accessing their offices to carry out their legitimate duties on the 28th September 2020 or any other date”.

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Also granted is an order compelling the inspector-general of police and the director-general, Department of State Services (DSS) to provide protection for workers “engaged in their legitimate duties from any form of harassment, intimidation and bullying by the officers, agents or privies of the unions pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice”.