Remove Fuel Subsidy, Face Our Wrath - NLC, TUC Warn Buhari

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade
Union Congress (TUC) have warned against any
move by the government to remove subsidy from
petroleum products.
Nigeria's National Assembly had passed the 2015
appropriation bill without allocating any money for
subsidy payment.
Speaking on Wednesday, Deputy President of the
NLC and chairman of the joint May Day celebration
of the NLC and TUC, Peter Adeyemi, told journalists
that organised Labour believed that government had
never subsidised petroleum products.
The Labour leader lamented that the bane of the
sector had been corruption, pointing out that past
government tried without success to address the
issue.
He said: "If you are asking whether we will back the
removal of fuel subsidy, the answer is no. It is not as
easy as that. You know that it has been a very
contentious issue over the years. We have always
said that there is nothing like subsidy. It is all about
corruption.
"Let me take your mind back and say that this same
issue has been something that numerous
government have embarked upon without an end.
During the Olusegun Obasanjo's government, this
exercise was embarked upon by the government
about 11 times and both the NLC and the TUC
engaged the government.
"So, it is like the more you look, the less you see.
For us in Labour, we are not going to support
that because it is outside our mandate as
leaders. We hope that the incoming
government, in a desperate bid to look for
money, will not look for money in the wrong
place".
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