Abia NLC Threatens To Sanction Unions Boycotting Nationwide Protest

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abia state on Tuesday joined the national body of the union to stage a peaceful protest to call the attention of the federal government to the plight of Nigerians, over the current economic hardship in the country.

The protesting workers, took off from the Labour House in Umuahia along Aba road opposite MTN office in the state capital, and marched round the streets in the Umuahia metropolis, before heading to the Governor’s Office, where the Chief of staff to the governor addressed them.

They carried different placards and chanted songs against government economic policies, saying that the policies had brought untold hardship on families.

Addressing the workers at the union secretariat in Umuahia, the NLC chairman in Abia state comrade Okoro Ogbonnaya, said by tomorrow the organize labour will take their protest to the State House of Assembly.

“Tomorrow we are going to meet the lawmakers and we will put it to them that we are making a law and that our law shall stand. Anything less than our demand, we will strike.

“Remember we will give seven days as directed by our nationals. The seven days given by the nationals cut across all the states of the federation and at the expiration of the seven days that’s 2nd of March, if nothing happens before then we will inform you.

“The thirty-four unions affiliated with NLC will come to the secretariat and brainstorm, when we brainstorm we will give you further directives.
He urged other labour unions in the state to mobilize their members for tomorrow’s protest noting that any defaulting union will be sanctioned.