Court Restrains Nigerian Workers, NLC From Going On Strike, Fixes June 19 For Hearing In Suit Filed By Tinubu Government

The federal government had taken the NLC and the TUC to court docket, praying for an expose to forestall the planned nationwide strike.

The Nationwide Industrial Court of Nigeria has restrained the Nigerian Labour Congress from proceeding on a nationwide strike by subsequent week Wednesday to voice against the gasoline subsidy removal by the newly inaugurated President Bola Tinubu-led government.

The court docket case, NICN/ABJ/158/2023, is the Federal Executive of Nigeria and the Attorney-Trendy of the Federation versus the Nigeria Labour Congres (NLC) and the Commerce Union Congress (TUC).

The federal government had taken the NLC and the TUC to court docket, praying for an expose to forestall the planned nationwide strike.

“I maintain be taught the supporting affidavit, the displays the FGN brought and the written addresses of the counsels. Having thought about the application, I hereby expose as follows; the circulation is granted as prayed,” an handle by the court docket specialize in on Monday said.

SaharaReporters had reported that the Nigerian Labour Congress had released its communiqué on Friday confirming the nationwide strike by subsequent week Wednesday to voice against the gasoline subsidy removal.

The NLC had listed 12 grounds on which the nationwide action have to scramble on, while digging out humongous corruption and unaccounted funds spent by the Nigerian government and the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted (NNPCL) under the guise of gasoline subsidy.

This comes amid gasoline shortages across the nation occasioned by President Bola Tinubu’s inaugural speech in which he declared that “gasoline subsidy is long gone”.

The union offered the industrial action on Friday, following a meeting of its Nationwide Govt Council (NEC) in Abuja over the gasoline subsidy removal and subsequent hike within the pump mark of petrol.

In the meantime, in step with the communiqué signed by NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, and the Trendy Secretary, Comrade Emmanuel Ugboaja, and obtained by SaharaReporters, the NLC listed out the the clarification why the nationwide action have to shield.

“The NEC-in-session thought about the colossal suffering pervading the nation, the outrage expressed by the majority and the increased attendant fears of the penalties of the PMS mark hike unanimously condemned the actions of the federal government and reached the following conclusions:

“1. That it used to be illegal for the federal government to maintain offered the withdrawal of the Subsidy on PMS. 2. That the 2023 Appropriation Act made provisions for the funding of the subsidy regime on PMS till the reside of June, 2023. 3. That it is unfair for the government to knowingly take action that will inflict distress on the populace and workers with out inserting ample safeguards in space.

“4. That discussions were already on and figuring out reached with government on the circumstances precedent earlier than the withdrawal of subsidy on PMS. 5. That the Local refineries especially the publicly owned four maintain remained comatose on memoir of presidency’s incapacity to obtain them operationally turned around. 6. That we cannot settle for any Petroleum Product Value amplify till products are subtle within the neighborhood.

“7. That federal government’s resolution used to be unilateral and therefore runs counter to the spirit of national consensus and Social Dialogue.”