Fuel hike: NLC rejects Tinubu govt’s N8,000 per household palliative

The Nigeria Labour Congress has rejected the Federal Government’s planned N500 billion palliatives to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal.

Joe Ajaero, the President of NLC, disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement.

DAILY POST recalls the National Assembly okayed an N500 billion palliatives request to distribute N8,000 to 12 million households.

The N500 billion palliatives proposal has since generated controversy in the country.

Ajaero described the proposal as robbing the poor to pay the rich.

The worker’s union said it had lost confidence in the 12 million households’ data.

Ajaero added that it is no longer interested in the federal government’s Committee to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal impact on Nigerians because it failed to set up a National Steering Committee.

“There is no other way to explain the proposal to pay a misery sum of N8,000 Naira to each of the mysterious poorest 12 million Households for six months which amounts to N48,000 and pays just 469 National Legislators N70b or about N149m each, while the judiciary that has about 72 Appeal Court Judges, 33 National Industrial Court Judges, 75 Federal High Court Judges and 21 Supreme Court Judges and a total of about 201 Judges receives a total of N35b or N174m each. If these other two arms are projected to receive this, what members of the Executive Council will receive is better left to the imagination of Nigerians; perhaps, the balance of N150b will go to them.

“NLC would not want to continue to be part of the usual charade of Committees with never implemented outcomes. We would not want to waste the time of Nigerians, especially workers on Committees that have already been programmed to fail and thus ignored”, the statement partly reads.

On Tuesday, DAILY POST reported that fuel prices had been hiked to N617 per litre from N539/per litre.