Nigeria’s organised labour has stormed out of the meeting of the Presidential Steering Committee on subsidy palliatives that was scheduled to take place at the presidential villa, Abuja.
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, had led his delegation to the Chief of Staff’s office, venue of the meeting at about 5pm but walked out of the villa moments later.
Recall that the Steering Committee meeting had met with the government delegation on Wednesday where the two parties agreed to reconvene on Friday to get briefs from the three subcommittees set up to look into various demands.
The Steering Committee was set up by the government to come up with palliatives that would cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal on the workers.
However, the meeting could not proceed because according to some members of the Steering Committee, there was no quorum.
But labour claimed that government officials who are members of the Mass Transit, the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Cash transfer subcommittees were nowhere to be found.
It was gathered that the Chief of Staff, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila had earlier waited for the labour delegation with other members of the team at his Conference Hall.
