Labour protest: Palliatives not sufficient to address challenges — Delta workers

Workers in Delta state trooped out in large numbers in Asaba, the state capital to protest against the removal of fuel subsidy insisting that the palliatives announced by President Bola Tinubu were not sufficient to address the challenges triggered by the action.

Carrying placards with different inscriptions that disapproved the subsidy removal and its scourging effects, the workers marched from the Labour House downtown through NTA road, Okpanam road to the government house, where a position paper of labour was presented to the state governor, Rt Honourable Sheriff Oborevwori who was represented by his Chief Policy Adviser, Rt. Hon Funkekeme Solomon.

Presenting the document at the government house gate, the State Chairman of the NLC Comrade Lawson Efenudu flanked by his TUC counterpart, Comrade Martin Bolum and the deputy president, RATTAWU, Comrade Innocent Ofuonyeadi accused the Tinubu administration of insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians, especially the workers.

According to him, Nigerians should not be choked to death, hence the protest to prevail on the government to allow the citizens breathe fresh air.

The NLC Chairman called on the governor to take the position of the state workers to President Tinubu even as he implored him to urgently put in place measures that would alleviate the sufferings of the workers and Deltans in general.

Addressing the workers, Gov Oborevwori commended the peaceful conduct of the protest adding that the removal of fuel subsidy had foisted more hardship on Nigerians.

He assured that the State Government was already doing everything possible to alleviate the pains occasioned by the fuel hike.

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