No fuel, no work, NLC threatens

Barely three days to handover of government to the APC, a faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) led by Isa Aremu on Monday said that it would direct workers to stay at home if the current fuel scarcity across the country is not addressed.

Aremu, said in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna that, “If the current scarcity and price robbery of Nigerians continue, NLC will have no choice but compel workers to stay at home.

“Workers certainly cannot fuel themselves to work with their blood. There is a limit to slavery and state marketers’ extortion.

“With an outgoing President and incoming one, five past heads of state alive, 36 state governors and hundreds of legislators and scores of ministers, no country on earth parades the highest number of state actors like Nigeria.

“Yet, there is no governance with respect to distribution of basic products like petroleum and kerosene.”

According to him, it is time Nigerians stopped agonising in the hands of cabals holding the nation to ransom for several weeks through deliberate deprivation of petroleum products.

He added, “What is happening in Nigeria amounts to economicide, which is a conscious subjugation of 170 million people to economic ruination through unsustainable petroleum import-based racket.

“This is an unofficial declaration of war against the citizens by combined forces of irresponsible ruling elite and business crooks.

“This agony of capitalism must be mass resisted by all Nigerians.”

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