The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced plans to embark on a nationwide industrial action following the ceaseless naira scarcity across the country.
This was confirmed in a directive given by Joe Ajaero, the NLC president, who asked public sector workers in the country to embark on strike from Wednesday, 29 March, 2023.
Our Correspondent gathered that he also directed all affiliate unions constituting the Nigeria Labour Congress to be on standby for picketing exercises across all branches of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, nationwide.
“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, the 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 for this exercise,” Ajaero stated
