The meeting between the Federal Government and Labour Unions, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress, has abruptly ended.
The meeting was to engage the federal government and labour dialogue over the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government on New Year’s day of 2012. Also was to make labour ends the strike action called upon, which has crippled the economy since Monday, January 9.
According to NLC president, Abdulwaheed Omar, he said there will not be a shut down of oil production because they want to allow peace reiign. The labour unions had called on its members last week to go on a nationwide strike, which was suspended for two days on Friday.
The labour unions have resolved not to compromise on its decision to revert to the old price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), which is called Petrol.
The meeting started at about 8pm, after it was rescheduled to start by 6pm, but ended at about some minutes past 11pm. With PENGASSAN’s threat to shut down oil production 12am on Sunday, January 15, if no agreement is reached with labour in reverting to N65 per litre, the Nigerian people don’t know when the crisis would end.
The meeting was attended by the Senate President, David Mark, Speaker, Aminu Tanbuwal, some state Governors, with the federal government representatives headed by former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, 18-man member of labour led by Abdulwaheed Omar of NLC and Peter Esele of TUC.
The removal of fuel subsidy has seen protests arise in most parts of the country for five days. The protests organizers have threatened to continue by Monday if the federal government does not go back to status-quo. Labour says negotiations are on-going. A new date for negotiation between the government and organized labour has not been fixed yet.
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