NLC, El-Rufai Set For Showdown As Buhari Fails To Intervene

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is set to resume its mass action against the mass retrenchment of workers by the Kaduna State Government.

President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, disclosed this to journalists in Abuja following an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council of the labour body on Tuesday.

According to him the decision followed the failure of the Nasir El-Rufai administration to backtrack from the mass retrenchment despite all avenues to make the government do so.

According to him the NLC tried reaching him through President Muhammadu Buhari and Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, but the actions failed to yield any positive results.

According to him union members across the country have been mobilised to resume the suspended mass action.

Wabba said the NLC decision action was taken after Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State refused to honour the last Memorandum of Action.

He said, “It is on record that between 31st of March and 1st April, 2021, thousands of workers have been laid off from the unified Local Government systems in Kaduna State.

“Also affected are workers in the State Primary Health Care agency, and workers in KSMC. Owing to the above grievous infractions, and continued provocation by the Kaduna State government against workers in the State, and despite the fact that we have also complained formally to the Federal Government through the President, we have also complained formally to the Federal Ministry of Labour on the non-adherence to the MoU, NEC has resolved as follows:

“That the earlier decision of the National Executive Council to withdraw all services and protest this neo-liberalism and extreme right-wing policies should take effect without further delay, and that the mobilisation of all our state councils and all affiliates should take place immediately and that all Employers of Labour should be put on notice as required by our extant laws.”

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