Organized Labor Hails Suspension Of Planned Fuel Subsidy Removal

The Organised Labour has hailed  the Federal Government’s decision to suspend the removal of fuel subsidy, describing it  as the “best option”.

Mr Benson Upah, Head of Information, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said this to newsmen while reacting to the recent suspension of the subsidy removal by the Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja.

It would be recalled that earlier, the National Economic Council (NEC) had planned for the removal of subsidy on petroleum product.

According to Upah, “we are glad that they have begun to see the light and decided to do the right thing

“Because the path they wanted to toe on the detriment of the ordinary Nigerians would have set the country on fire.

“There would have been instantaneous reaction. Of course, we would have been glad to coordinate those reactions.

“But happily, they have beginning to see the light. Our advice would be that they should take a lesson from the document we gave them on the so-called fuel subsidy removal.

The answer cannot be far from domestic production,’’ he said.

He said the decision would enable all the corruption building into the system to be minimised.

Upah, therefore, called on the Federal Government to fix the existing refineries or build new ones, instead of importing refined petroleum products.