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..Tells FG: Call CBN to order, or have us to contend with
By Bimbola Oyesola
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has read the riot act to the Federal Government on the scarcity of the nation’s currency, charging the Federal Government to call the Central Bank to order or have Organised Labour to contend with.
The Congress in a statement by its President, Festus Osifo and the Secretary General, Nuhu Toro said TUC has watched with growing concern, alarm and dismay the sudden, inexplicable, acute scarcity of the currency, the Naira, across the country.
“Citizens simply find it difficult to access the Naira from banks and their outlets (especially the Automated Teller Machines, A. T. M),” the statement said adding that consequently, they are being forced to patronize extortionist Point of Service (POS) operators who charge Shylock rates.
The Congress leadership said, it is hard to comprehend that the Central Bank of Nigeria is finding it extremely difficult to make the nation’s currency available to the working people and the citizens.
“To say the least, this is unfortunate and unacceptable. Nigerians have continued to be subjected to needless excruciating hardship by insensitive and heartless agents and agencies of government, whose actions and inactions are really difficult to fathom and impossible to defend,,” the statement read.
The TUC leadership queried what could have been the offense of the “ordinary Nigerians that they have to face so much pains and tribulations without let off, even in this solemn Yuletide season?”
The Congress charged the government to come up with solution urgently, “President Tinubu Administration must move pronto and decisively and for once get its monetary and fiscal policies right and working in the interest of the long-suffering people.
“This naira scarcity MUST END NOW!!! Otherwise, the TUC, its affiliates and our allies, would be forced to consider exploring our usual options whenever the working people are pushed to the wall.
