Subsidy Removal: NLC, TUC Reportedly Storm Out Of Meeting With FG

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the leadership of the organised labour have allegedly stormed out of the meeting of the Presidential Steering Committee on subsidy palliatives that was scheduled to take place at the presidential villa, Abuja.

Recall that the Steering Committee meeting had met with the government delegation on Wednesday where the two parties agreed to reconvene on Friday to get brief from the three subcommittees set up to look into various demands.

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The Steering Committee was set up by the government to come up with palliatives that would cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal on the workers.

According to Vanguard, the President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, had led his delegation to the Chief of Staff’s office, venue of the meeting at about 5pm on Friday but were soon on their way out of the villa.

But the meeting could not proceed because according to some members of the Steering Committee, there was no quorum.

Organised labour accused the federal government of using the meetings as a pretext to deceive Nigerians.

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A source at the meeting confirmed that three subcommittees, the Mass Transit, the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Cash transfer subcommittees, were supposed to be present to brief the Steering Committee on the measures put in place to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal on the workers, but labour claimed that government officials, who are members the subcommittees were nowhere to be found.

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