***Warns against its negative consequences
The Senator representing Kogi East Senatorial District at the national assembly, Jibrin Isah-Echocho has asked the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) not to plunge the country into more hardship with a strike action as planned on Wednesday
The organized Labour however, has vowed to make real their threats to embark on the planned strike action starting Today despite all entreaties.
Senator Isah-Echocho made the plea while contributing to a motion on urgent public importance titled ‘Urgent Need to Avert the Intending strike action of the Nigeria Labour Congress’, moved by the Senator representing Kano South, Abdulrahman, Kawu-Suleiman during plenary.
He said strike action always comes with negative consequences that affects everybody in the country.
According to the lawmaker President Bola Tinubu is aware of what Nigerians are passing through, adding that his intention is to benefit all as the subsidy regime is not sustainable
According to him, “We would not want a situation that we go the way of strike again because strike action normally have intended and unintended consequences that will rub negatively on everybody, both the poor and the rich”.
“The action or measures taken so far by the President of Nigeria is to enable us come to terms with the reality of Nigeria as it is now, as against what I will call window dressing by the immediate past govt”.
“We need to know where we are, and this is the true situation as it is today and I want to believe that the president is not happy, with what is going on in terms of the suffering of the masses, its not just about the poor, eveybody is feeling it, but I want to believe that this is the only way we can go to set Nigeria on a sustainable path of growth ”.
“I want to appeal to Labour Union to please shelve the intention to go on strike, the President has a good intention and this intention on the long run will manifest in the improvement of the standard of living of all Nigerians, it is on that note that I support this motion”, he said.
