The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will resist what it called unilateral increase in prices of petroleum products by the government, saying “it represents the height of insensitivity and impunity”.
In a statement by the union after a new price band of N145 per litre for Premium Motor Spirit
was announced by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, the labour union said the increase was the least one had expected at this point in time.
“With the imposition on the citizenry of criminal and unjustifiable electricity tariff and resultant
darkness and other economic challenges brought on by the devaluation of the Naira and spiralling inflation, the least one had expected at this point in time was another policy measure that would further make life more miserable for the ordinary Nigerian.
According to the union, the process through which government arrived at the increase was both illogical and illegal as the board of the PPPRA was not duly constituted.
“Accordingly, we urge the government to revert the prices to what they were. We would want to put everybody on notice that we shall resist this criminal increase with every means legitimate,” the union stated.
The union has already scheduled an emergency NEC meeting for Friday, May13, to decide on the next line of action and requested that affiliates, state councils and civil society allies should commence mobilisation immediately.
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