President Bola Tinubu’s committee on petrol subsidy meeting with the organised labour appears to lack capacity to negotiate and expedite actions on resolving the impasse per palliative and other measures to improve Nigerians’ well-being in the short term, says NLC president Joe Ajaero.
The labour leader also cast aspersions on the social register for poor and vulnerable citizens created by the defunct regime of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
Mr Ajaero stated this at a meeting between the leadership of the organised labour and the Senate leadership led by Godswill Akpabio.
Mr Ajaero said the wage review committee had not sat two months after the removal of the subsidy.
“Part of our challenge is the issue of the committee put in place. The committee seems not to be capable. As labour, we have done negotiations with previous administrations. At no time had the chief of staff to the president, who is very busy, called to…