The Union is threatening industrial action by Wednesday, June 7th unless the government continues with this clearly untenable culture of “fraud” and “rent.” The reaction of the Labour Union is both bewildering and hypocritical.
It is confounding because all the major presidential candidates in the February national polls said they were going to end the “fraud” that was the fuel subsidy. It’s duplicitous therefore, for the Labour Congress to grandstand. It won’t get any accolades. I am skeptical if Nigerians would heed the call. They didn’t in 2016 when they asked us to shun work following former president Buhari’s upward review of fuel charge.Discerning Nigerians have since concluded that the trade Union is hostage to vested political and business interests. It dances to their drumbeats. That explains, in part, why it speaks through both sides of the mouth.
