Fuel Hike: NLC Rejects Tinubu Govt’s N8,000 Per Household Palliative

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected the Federal Government’s proposed N500 billion palliatives to mitigate the impact of the elimination of gasoline subsidies.

NLC President Joe Ajaero announced this in a statement on Tuesday.

The National Assembly approved an N500 billion palliatives request, which will provide N8,000 to 12 million households.

“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.