BY: News Peddlers
Chris Ngige the Minister of
Labour AND Employment, is begging the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to suspend
its planned mass protest over the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union
of Universities, ASUU and other university-based unions.
The Minister appealed on
Thursday at a meeting with the leadership of NLC in his office in Abuja, the
nation’s capital.
Also in attendance at the
meeting were the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo and
the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Kachollom S. Daju. AIT LIVE reports.
Ngige told officials at
the meeting about efforts the Federal Government so far made to resolve the
impasse in the university system, saying that efforts were still ongoing.
He reminded the NLC representatives that he integrated them
into the tripartite conciliation going on in his Ministry, and being very much
aware of the efforts of the Government to resolve the impasse, they were not
expected to embark on any protest.
According to him, a
security report also sent to his office by the Department of State Services,
DSS, strongly warned against holding the mass protest, slated for July 26 and
27, 2022.
Leader of the NLC team and Deputy President, Najeem Yasin,
and General Secretary, Emma Ugboajah, assured the Government of a peaceful
protest by the Congress, saying that infiltrators would not be allowed to
participate in it.
He further told the labour leaders that the Federal Executive
Council, FEC has mandated him to notify them of the serious security
implications of the planned mass protest.
SOURCE: AIT LIVE