Showing posts with label Protest rally in Abuja and Lagos against hardship and frustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protest rally in Abuja and Lagos against hardship and frustration. Show all posts

Friday 10 February 2017

Labour, civil society groups protest govt’s policies

Oganised labour, yesterday, at a protest rally in Abuja and Lagos against worsening hardship and frustration in the country, asked the Federal Government to change its style of governance and implement people-oriented policies to avert a looming social uprising. Leading aggrieved workers and other Nigerians, including some civil society allies, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, made it clear that Nigerians are dissatisfied with the style of governance that had made Nigerians poorer and unable to cope with the hardship. They demanded that the Federal Government make known the identities of those that looted the commonwealth and also asked that their hands be cut off to serve as deterrent to others. The protest organised by the NLC, TUC and their civil society allies, also lamented that nothing much had been achieved in the fight against corruption.