Nigerians Surprised As NLC Keeps Silent On Fuel Price Increase

 

Despite various calls by using Nigerians both on-line and offline that the Organised Labour ought to react to the recent increment in Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its Trade Union Congress (TUC) counterpart have saved silent.

The increment came barely after seventy two hours oil workers under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) declared indefinite strike over issues associated with Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and other sundry problems.

Daily Trust had on Saturday suggested that Nigerians are still groaning following the federal government’s decision to raise the pump charge from N160 to N170, with many calling out labour leaders to take movements.

The Justification

But the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) justified the increment, saying “the slight growth inside the price based totally at the prevailing realities of market forces of call for and deliver”.

However, days after the increment, the NLC and the TUC are but to officially react both through a assertion or different manner.The labour leaders neither spoke back to numerous calls nor textual content and Whatsapp messages despatched by using our correspondent.

Similarly, different newshounds masking labour beat have also expressed their frustrations closer to labour leaders’ non-reaction to calls and messages.

A journalist operating with one the country wide dailies stated, “I’ve known as and despatched one of a kind messages, all to no avail. I referred to as a few individuals of body of workers at Labour House, none of them replied as it should be.