FRI, AUGUST 04 2023-theGBJournal |The Nigeria Labour Congress resolved to go on total strike across the country any day labour leaders are summoned to Court by the government through the National Industrial Court (NICN), a resolution reached at its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting Thursday.
In a COMMUNIQUE issued at the end of the meeting, the NLC said the Federal Ministry of Justice through the NICN has continued to allow itself to be used as a vehicle to truncate the dominance of the tenets of democracy and muzzle/silence the voices of Nigerian workers.
It slammed the Justice Ministry for serving a summons on the leadership of the NLC and TUC to answer to contempt of court charges ”despite the provisions of the constitution to the contrary and the objective realities.”
The NLC consequently demanded the immediate withdrawal of ”this litigious terrorism” by the Federal Ministry of Justice before the end of work Friday, the 11th of August, 2023, and threatened to embark on a nationwide comprehensive strike beginning Monday 14th of August, 2023 if ”this contemptuous Court summons” are not withdrawn by whosoever initiated it.
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