Maritime workers under the aegis of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has announced plans to join the the two-day nationwide protest by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).
The NLC had announced a nationwide protest scheduled for February 27 and 28, to kick against the economic challenges facing Nigerians.
The decision came after a 14-day ultimatum issued to the Nigerian Government regarding the widespread hardship.
The Department of State Services (DSS) and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, (SAN) have urged the NLC to shelve its proposed nationwide protest.
Similarly, the Trade Union Congress has warned that the planned protest being championed by the NLC may lead to anarchy due to the tense nature of the country amid current hardship and prevailing hunger in the land.
The government warned that the NLC would be in contempt of court if the planned protest was held. But a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has written to Fagbemi, noting that NLC would not be in contempt of court over its planned nationwide protest.
However, the President-General of MWUN, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, in a statement signed by its Head of Media, Kennedy Ikemefuna announced plans to join the protest.
He asserted that the move was necessary following the directive of NLC that its affiliate members across the nation should strictly comply. Adding that the protests won’t affect port operations.
Ikemefuna that the protest is coming against the backdrop of the Federal Government’s refusal to honour the October 2023 agreement signed with the congress.
He said, “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 of the ill-conceived and ill- ill-implemented policies have brought upon Nigerian Workers and the citizenry of the country,” Ikechukwu said.
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