NLC Make Demands On Saraki, Dogara

The Nigerian Labour Congress has asked the new leadership of the National Assembly to make legislations that would help deepen the country’s democracy.

Kiri Mohammed, the acting president of the NLC, said this yesterday, June 10, in his congratulatory message to Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara who emerged as president of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.

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Mohammed according to Premium Times, expressed hopes that the new leadership of the National Assembly will revisit the Petroleum Industry Bill  (PIB)  and other critical bills which were left pending by its predecessor.

He lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for not interfering in the elections of the leadership of the House of Assembly, noting that the presidents conduct should serve as precedent to other politicians and political parties.

On the lingering fuel crisis, the NLC leader urged the president to move swiftly to proffer a lasting solution to the crisis.

He lamented that the scarcity of petroleum products in the country had detrimental effects on the nation’s economy.

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“It has become extremely difficult for workers to get to work, because of the perpetual scarcity of petroleum products, which has burdened their salaries as they now have to pay exorbitant transport fares to commute to work, even as majority of them have not received salaries in months,” he said.

The NLC leader also called on the president to prosecute those  behind the corroption in the oil sector.

Meanwhile, Senator Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West) on Wednesday said the APC lost the deputy Senate presidency to the PDP because many of its senators were absent from Tuesday’s inauguration.

He said that APC senators present at the inauguration voted for the APC candidate, Sen. Ali Ndume, but due to the large number of APC senators absent, a PDP candidate who was nominated won the seat.

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