DEREGULATION: NLC takes battle to Abuja – Says FG plans to sell fuel at N104 – Tribune
October 26, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has hinted at the plan of the Federal Government to increase fuel price to N104 per litre, following unsuccessful dialogue between labour and the government.
However, the NLC is planning to stage, on Thursday, what it calls “mother of all rallies” in Abuja, to kick against the plan.
Acting President of NLC, Mr. Promise Adewusi, who led the meeting between the NLC and the Federal Government, in an interview with some labour correspondents in Abuja, said government agencies and officials were already giving an indication that the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, would go for N104 per litre.
To this end, Mr. Adewusi, who is a deputy president of the congress and who represented the NLC president, Mr. Abdulwaheed Omar, who was outside the country, at the emergency meeting, called on Nigerians to take their destiny in their own hands by coming out in their large number as the NLC holds what he tagged “mother of all rallies” in Abuja, on Thursday, against deregulation, fuel price increase, minimum wage and other vital issues.
