If the Federal Government does not drop a lawsuit it launched against the NLC’s leaders, the NLC has threatened to resume its nationwide strike on August 14, 2023.
The union made the decision during its National Executive Council meeting, which was held in Abuja on Thursday, according to a statement released on Thursday by the National President, Joe Ajaero, and the National Secretary, Emanuel Ugboaja. The union also vowed to go on a nationwide total strike any time labor leaders were called before a court by the government.
The union charged that the Nigerian National Industrial Court (NICN) and the Ministry of Justice had let themselves to be exploited as “anti-democracy” agents.
They urged that the Federal Ministry of Justice immediately stop the legal proceedings before the close of business on Friday, August 11, 2023.
“To embark on a nationwide comprehensive strike beginning Monday 14th of August, 2023 if this contemptuous court summon is not withdrawn by whosoever initiated it,” the union said.