The Tinubu-Shettima Abuja Team, TSAT has urged Nigerians to prevail on the organised labour, particularly the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, to allow a more matured and resourceful approach in the resolution of the current fuel subsidy imbroglio.
This, according to the group, should be done in a manner that would at the end, be in the general interest of the masses.
TSTA, at an extra ordinary meeting in Abuja, on Monday took critical assesments of the conundrum attending the issue of petrol subsidy removal by the current President Bola Tinubu’s administration, and described the subsidy removal at this time by all understanding as “courageous, innevitable and having the prospect of bringing the desired solution to the lingering fuel subsidy issue, which would at the end be hugely benefiting to all as against the favouring of a class of few individuals, at the sad expense of the largest Nigerians.”
The Tinubu-Shettima support group at the meeting, chaired by its National Co-ordinator/Chairman; Chief (Otunba) Nathaniel Dosunmu, resolved among others that “the recent past experiences from the threats of organised trade unions, particularly the NLC and TUC, to go on strike in order to press home certain demands had been bogus noises that had not done the nation the desired good.”
The group also resolved that “much as the organised labour only take advantage of burning issues in Nigeria to register a relevance in the national affairs of the country, such noises had often dissolved in the air without a recourse to explain to innocent Nigerians they had mobilised to join in the protests.”
A statement by Otunba Dosunmu said that the TSTA’s position was “that the after-effects of pronounced strike actions by the organised labour had always sympathetically ended in inflicting more hardships on poor Nigerians who earn their daily incomes through very small scale enterprises.”
The statement added, “That such occasions had provided opportunities for hoodlums to hijack the protest and unleash underserved terrors on poor Nigeians.
“That any policy aimed at rescuing a decadent subject of a nation often comes with an initial hardship that would only last a while before sweet results begin to follow. TSTA called on Nigerians to bear with the government on the fuel subsidy now and reap the good benefits shortly.
“That both the NLC and TUC should please enter into patriotic negotiations with the Federal Government, to wit, wages of workers, the palliatives and the soothing flows that will favour the ordinary Nigerians”.
The TSTA Co-ordinator therefore urged Nigerians to bear in mind that problems surrounding the petrol subsidy in the country had in the first place, been long standing, and which at this point, requires a once and for resolution by the present regime in the general interests of all.
