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NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC), has asked President Obasanjo to localise the compassion extended to Nigeria by Paris Club in granting the nation debt relief by halting the moves to hike the pump prices of petroleum products, saying that Nigerians urgently needed relief.
ABUJA - NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC), has asked President Obasanjo to localise the compassion extended to Nigeria by Paris Club in granting the nation debt relief by halting the moves to hike the pump prices of petroleum products, saying that Nigerians urgently needed relief.
President of NLC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, while speaking at the Opening ceremony of the 17th Annual Education conference of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) pleaded with the government to also have have mercy on the suffering Nigerians and stop the plan to impose more hardship on them through another fuel price increase. Comrade Oshiomhole who was represented by Comrade Issa Aremu,said: "Today, Nigerians are celebrating debt relief granted us by the Paris Club. We hope that the same compassion could be granted to the Nigerian masses and workers by the government.
Athough, with our resources, wer should be granting relief and not accepting relief. We call on the government to extend the same relief and compassion granted us by the creditors countries and halt the move to further impoverish Nigerians through another feul hike". In his speech, former Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador Maitama Sule, lamented that Nigeria had been degenerating from developing country to under developing country.
Ambassador Sule who was the chairman of the occasion said it was unfortunate that the dreams of the nation's founding fathers for a great a nation was fast fading into despair noting that the present leaders of the country had not vision on how to move the nation forward. He called on Nigerians to ensure that those they elect into leadership positions were God-fearing people who had interest of the nation instead of personal or parochial interest.
Speaking, deputy governor of Kano State,Engineer Maggaji Abdullahi, lamented that Kano State had lost not less than 300 factories out of the initial 500 in the state and called for a concereted efforts to revive the industries in Nigeria, not only in the state.
He assured that the state government was doing every thing possible to revive closed industries in the state and noted that the government was ready for any suggestion in this respect.