Subsidy: FG Has Not Fulfilled Promises On CNG Buses, Cash Transfers, Others – NLC

• Officials of the NLC met with the representatives of the Federal Government on Monday to avert an indefinite strike in the country
• However, the meeting ended the deadlock

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says the federal government has not fulfilled its promises made to amelioration the suffering and economic pains caused by the removal of fuel subsidies.

Labour expressed frustration over a palpable indifference on the part of the Federal Government to meet its demands.

Officials of the NLC met with the representatives of the Federal Government on Monday to avert an indefinite strike in the country.

However, the meeting ended in a deadlock.

Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, NLC President Joe Ajaero said the government has not met any of the body’s demands.

Among its demands are to address the consequences of petrol price hikes, review the minimum wage, provide a workable roadmap to the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) alternative, fix the country’s refineries, and pay lecturers’ salary arrears.

“They have not made any efforts on any issue,” Ajaero asserted.

“Even the issue as simple as cash transfer or bringing buses on the road, nothing has happened to them. So, it’s a lack of willingness and we can’t muddle up all these issues.

“Then you call a minimum wage as wage award. If anybody is looking at the issue of wage award as minimum wage, then there’s confusion within that class of people.”

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Citing a 2021 agreement on CNG vehicles reached with the then Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, the labour leader argued it was clear that a million vehicles could be converted within three months.

Ajaero decried the Federal Government’s 2024 projection to deploy CNG buses for a more affordable mass transit system.

“If anybody is telling you that until next year, nothing could be done, I’m telling you that the person is not telling us the truth,” he said.

“What is so peculiar about next year when these processes will start? Is it that there are no CNG vehicles that can onto the road, or we can’t have some stations, even with IPMAN saying that their filling stations are available?”