We won’t end protests –Labour

Punch

11 January 2012

We won’t end protests –Labour

The raging protests over the removal of subsidy on fuel by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration entered its second day with the leadership of the organised labour telling the Federal Government that the protests would not fizzle out very soon as anticipated.

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar, and his Trade Union Congress counterpart, Mr. Peter Esele, said while addressing protesters at the Berger Round About, Abuja, that the protesters would sustain the tempo of the protest, contrary to the expectation of the government and its operatives.

They urged the protesters to sustain the demonstrations, stressing that the struggle for the reversal of the increase in the pump price of fuel would take a long time.

The turnout of people on Tuesday was massive and more than the turn out on the first day of the mass rally on Monday.

Although the Police blocked the protesters briefly at the Herbert Macaulay Way
by Rabat Junction, they acceded to the sustained demand of Labour and the CSOs to proceed with the rally...