Nigerian workers have announced February 4, 2025, as the date to embark on a nationwide protest against the 50 percent telecommunications services tariff hike in the country.
The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, disclosed this in a
statement on Wednesday.
This comes as the Nigerian Communications Commission on
January 20, 2025, announced the approval for telecom companies to hike services
tariffs by 50 percent.
The approval has sparked a wide tide of rejection by
Nigerians, including the NLC.
In an update to press home their opposition against the
telecom tariff hike, the NLC vowed to shut down the country through a
nationwide protest.
This is part of its mobilisation against the planned 50
percent telecom tariff hike.
The nationwide protest was agreed
on at the ongoing National Administrative Council, NAC, of the labour union.
The protest aims at sounding a note of warning to the
government that workers would resist the planned hike as it would worsen the
poverty level across the country.
Recall that NLC had, on January 22, rejected the 50 percent
telecommunication tariffs hike approved by the Federal Government through the
Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.
The NLC said that the 50 percent tariff hike approval, at a
time Nigerian workers and the masses are grappling with unprecedented economic
hardship, is a clear assault on their welfare and an abandonment of the people
to corporate fat cats.
“This decision, coming at a time when Nigerian workers and
the masses are grappling with unprecedented economic hardship, is a clear
assault on their welfare and an abandonment of the people to corporate fat
cats,” the statement by NLC president, Joe Ajaero partly reads.
Earlier, Nigerians under the aegis of the National
Association of Telecoms Subscribers vowed to drag the Nigerian government and
telcos to court over the 50 percent telecoms service tariff hike.
Meanwhile, the government had repeatedly justified the
latest telecom tariff hike on rising inflation which stood at 34.80 percent in
December.
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