The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria has declared that it will be joining the two-day nationwide protest being organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), News About Nigeria reports.
The Union’s Head of Media, MWUN, Kennedy Ikemefuna, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, stating that it was a necessary move for the Union and other affiliates of the NLC.
He noted that a directive had come from the Labour Congress, asking its affiliate members across the nation to strictly comply, adding that the maritime workers in the country would not be left out of the industrial action.
“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 that the ill-conceived and ill-implemented policies have brought upon Nigerian workers and the citizenry of the country,” he said.
He further noted that the protest is coming against the backdrop of the Federal Government’s refusal to honour the October 2023 agreement signed with Congress.
Recall that the NLC announced on February 16th that a nationwide protest has been scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday (February 27 and 28) over the alleged government’s failure to implement agreements reached between both parties on October 2, 2023, following the removal of the fuel subsidy.
