Tunde Sholanke
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero,has directed public sector workers in the country to embark on strike beginning from next Wednesday to protest the prevailing cash scarcity.
He also directed that affiliate unions constituting the Nigeria Labour Congress should also be on standby for picketing exercise across all branches of the apex bank next week
The directive was sequel to an earlier ultimatum issued by the Central Working Committee members of the NLC last week criticising the cash swap policy of the Federal Government.
He lamented that despite the Supreme Court order allowing the old N500 and N1000 notes to circulate with the new notes till December 31st this year, the situation appears to be getting worse as workers cannot access cash to pay fares to work, neither can they buy food for their families.
Speaking on Wednesday at the headquarters of NLC, Ajaero also punctured the pricing irregularities in the petroleum sector, was also a cause for concern.
He added:”Last week we gave an ultimatum for the review of the cash crunch bedeviling the country, but we have discovered to our dismay that as at this moment not much effort has been made to ameliorate the situation, government is still foot dragging on these issues we raised.
“Based on this, we met again this morning to review our position and resolved that by Wednesday next week all CBN branches will be picketed, workers are directed to stay at home too because people cannot eat, workers can no longer go to the office, we have been pushed to the wall, we have decided to take our destiny in our hands, we have mobilised our workers on this exercise”
