A statement signed by the General Secretary of NLC Peter Ozo-Eson said it was unfortunate that some media houses misrepresented its call for protests and mass mobilisation against the delay to mean general strike.
In the statement captioned; 'Tomorrow is a day of protest and mass mobilisation" NLC said it will inform the public when a date for a strike action is decided.
Below is the full text of the statement:
Tomorrow is A Day of Protest and Mass Mobilisation
It
has come to our attention that some section of the news media has largely misrepresented
our action plan in reaction to the delay in transmitting the recommendations of
the Tripartite Committee on a new National Minimum Wage to the National
Assembly by President Mohammadu Buhari.
It
should be recalled that the National Executive Council of NLC met on 17th
of December last year and directed that we hold nationwide mobilisation of
workers and our allies if by 31st December 2018 the bill on the
National Minimum Wage has yet to be sent to the National Assembly to be passed
as an Act of Parliament. We immediately announced then that on Tuesday, 8th
January 2019, there will be a nationwide mass mobilisation and protests
simultaneously across all states in Nigeria. This does not translate to a
strike.
It
is on record that each time we had cause to embark on a national strike, we say
so publicly without any equivocation. We still don’t understand where the story
about a strike commencing tomorrow came from.
Already,
all our State Councils, affiliate unions and allies in other pro people mass
organisations now popularly referred to as Civil Society Organisations have
been fully informed and mobilised to ensure the success of tomorrow’s mass
protests in all the states and the Federal Capital Territory.
When
a date is decided for the commencement of a strike subsequently, we will inform
the public appropriately.
Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson
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