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Strike Suspension: ACN Commends Organized Labour For Good
Outing… Calls For Scraping of the Office of First Lady
The Rivers State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN),
is thumps-up for the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade
Union Congress (TUC), and the organized Civil Society
Organizations, CSOs for putting up a strong worthy and spirited
engagement with federal government over the contentious
unilateral fuel subsidy removal.
Jerry Needam, Publicity Secretary of the ACN stated this in
press statement issued on behalf of the party commending the
organized labour for reaching a compromise and subsequent
suspension of the seven day national strike.
Justifying the position of the organized labour, the ACN
regretted that rather than instituting the platform for the
necessary deregulation of the Petroleum downstream sector, the
federal government unwittingly embarked on just passing the bulk
on the hapless masses, thus setting itself on collision course
with Labour.
The ACN spokesman, Jerry Needam however advised labour not to
rest on its oars so that the assurances, promises and agreements
that led to the suspension of the strike do not go the way of
previous ones that had to resurrect the public anger with
greater debilitating effects on the economy.
On new realities thrown up by the cohesion of the protestations
and demonstrations nationwide, Jerry Needam said there is an
urgent need for government to cut down the cost of running
government by abolishing a number of unconstitutional offices
like the office of the First Lady at both federal and state
levels, office of the wives of Local Government Council Chairmen
through which large chunk of the people's resources are wasted.
He cited Rivers State as a good example of suffering such
colossal waste through the offices of the First Lady and council
chairmen's wives that have nothing to show for the monies
allocated to them, calling it a worse subsidy that must be
expunged instant.###
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