The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has assured Nigerians that the mass rallies scheduled for next Monday will go on, and urged them to ignore the rumours of a ‘black market’ injunction possibly purchased by the Goodluck Jonathan government from the National Industrial Court (NIC).
“The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is not aware of any such injunction, we were not served any paper of court appearance, we were not present in court nor were we represented in any capacity,” said Acting Secretary General Owei Lakemfa, in a statement. “Also, the NLC was not served any court summons nor were we served any court order.”
He urged the Jonathan administration to listen to the people or face their justifiable wrath. He observed of the government, “They cannot make the simple analysis that the whole populace is angry and that Nigerians do not need any group to ask them to protest an evil policy that seeks to impoverish them.
He pointed out that the forces outlined in the country are simply the Nigerian People against the Jonathan Government, and is not an industrial relations one, or between an employer and an employee.
“So if the issue was taken before the National Industrial Court, then it is the wrong place to shop for a black market injunction,” he said. “To obtain an injunction from a court that has no competent jurisdiction is to try playing ping pong with the judiciary.”
He reminded everyone that the constitutional and fundamental right of Nigerians to protest cannot be annulled.
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