The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the headquarters of Nigerian Army have traded words on the ongoing nationwide strike embarked by the organized Labour in Nigeria.
GLOBAL TRACKER checked on the official handle of the NLC on X formerly Twitter “@NLCHeadquarters” shows how NLC threatened to worsened the ongoing strike if their leaders were intimidated or provoke on the currently meeting with federal government representatives.
The post reads “soldiers are Presently sorounding the venue of the meeting between Labour and Government at the premises of the SGF.
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“Any Attempt to Intimidate, Provoke or Blackmail Our Leaders at the Negotiation table, Would be resisted and Strike action would further be prolonged.
However, in a swift response the army denied the allegations also via X @HQNigerianArmy.
The post read “The attention of Army Headquarters has been drawn to a false breaking news by NLC alleging that soldiers currently surround the venue of the ongoing meeting between NLC and the SGF.
“Kindly note that the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who is also attending the meeting, arrived at the meeting venue with his retinue of statutorily approved military escorts. Once the meeting is over, the escorts will lead the NSA from the venue.
“Kindly disregard the deliberate and misleading falsehood being peddled about the presence of the escorts at the meeting.
Meanwhile, a large portion of the public in a conversation on local radio station in Kano monitored by GLOBAL TRACKER believed that the nationwide Strike embarked by the NLC would not change anything as it will be business as usual like the previous onces.