The Nigerian Maritime Workers Union said that it will participate in the two-day nationwide demonstration being coordinated by the Nigeria Labour Congress.
Kennedy Ikemefuna, the MWUN Head of Media, made this announcement in a statement on Monday.
According to Ikemefuna, the action was required because the NLC had mandated that all of its affiliate members nationwide adhere to rigorous compliance.
The national demonstration against the government’s purported inability to carry out the agreements agreed by the parties on October 2, 2023, after the gasoline subsidy was removed, was announced by the NLC on February 16. The protest is expected to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The ruling came at the end of a 14-day ultimatum to the federal government to take action against the pervasive misery.
“The MWUN would join the Nigeria Labour Congress’s two-day nationwide protest holding on the 27-28th of February 2024, as directed by the congress after its NEC-in-session meeting held on Monday, in Abuja, directing all its affiliate members across the nation to strictly comply.
“The congress believes that if the agreement had been honoured and implemented, it would have gone a long way to ameliorate the sufferings and hardships of the ill-conceived and ill- ill-implemented policies have brought upon Nigerian Workers and the citizenry of the country,” Ikechukwu stated.
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