Nigerian Senate meets stakeholders to avert strike

Nigerian Senate meets stakeholders to avert strike

The Nigerian Senate says it will meet with the Labour, Professionals and Non Governmental Organizations on Sunday to try to find a way of persuading the organized labour avert its planned strike on Monday.

In a statement in Abuja on Friday, the Chairman Senate Committee on Labour, Senator Wilson Ake, called for restraint over the proposed strike by labour and productivity, civil societies and other professionals against the government’s removal of oil subsidy, saying it could be catastrophic to the already fragile economy.

Already, the senate committee on labour and productivity had fixed a meeting with labour leaders, professionals, and civil society groups on Sunday as part of moves to avert the looming strike on Monday.

Senator Ake insisted that dialogue and further consultation was the antidote to the looming crisis. He said that the Senate was talking with the members of the executive arm of government and labour to follow the path of dialogue in order to arrive at a common position that would further serve the interest of all Nigerians.

“Nigerians are already experiencing pains. No party or anybody should do anything that would further aggravate their pains.”

The Senate, Ake said would come out with a reasonable position that would be in the best interest of all Nigerians.

He reiterated that Nigerians are already gripped with insecurity challenges and would not be ready to absolve further pains on account of strike.

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