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NLC Rejects Petrol Price Hike, Sounds Battle Cry
Eko Hot Blog reports that The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected the new pump price of petrol fixed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL).
Addressing State House correspondents earlier on Tuesday, Mele Kyari, Group Executive Director of NNPCL, justified the hike, which he attributed to market forces.However, in a statement on Tuesday night, Dele Alake, presidential spokesperson, said Tinubu had ordered the immediate review of the proposed N8,000 conditional cash transfer to Nigerians, meant to cushion the effect of the petrol subsidy removal.
He advised Nigerians to welcome the development, saying that was the way to go.
But NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, described the increment as “insults our collective intelligence.”
In a statement, he said: “The proposal to pay N8,000 to each of the so-called 12 million poorest Nigerian households for a period of six months insults our collective intelligence and makes a mockery of our patience and abiding faith in social dialogue which the government may have alluded to albeit pretentiously.
“If the government does not want to stop these fortuitous actions that it is pursuing in the name of palliatives, we will be forced to constructively review our engagement with the government on this vexatious issue and take matters into our own hands.” he said.
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