Breaking: Labour Suspends Strike, FG Suspends Electricity Tariff |The Source

By Uche Mbah

The strike action by Organised Labour, scheduled to start on Monday 28 September 2020, has been suspended.  This is predicated on the suspension of the increase in electricity tariff for fourteen days.

The increase in PMS pump price, however, remains the same.

A committee has been set up to look into the “conflicting field reports that resulted in the electricity price hike.” The committee is to be headed by the Labor Minister, Chris Ngige.

The decision was reached after a marathon meeting by Organized Labor and Ministry officials which lasted till the wee hours of Monday, 28 September 2020.

Organized labor and pro-democracy groups had given strike notice to the Federal  Government  to protest the increase in tariff on electricity and the increase in fuel price. The government had approached the notice of strikes with threats of arrests and efforts at intimidating the organized labor. But labor had insisted on strike.

Speaker of the house of representatives Femi Gbajabiamila had tried to intervene,  begging the Labor Unions to shelve the strike. The Ministry  called a meeting in a last-minute effort to stem the tide.

More details later…