By Marcus Ikechukwu
The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress has threatened to probe subsidy payments made under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The development follows the rejection of the subsidy removal and pricing templates released by the federal government recently.
Joe Ajaero, NLC president, gave this indication on Friday, at an emergency national executive council (NEC) meeting convened by the union in Abuja.
Lamenting the situation, Ajaero said most of the state governors were still defaulting on the payment of the N30,000 minimum wage and the government was feigning ignorance that over half of the population in Nigeria was experiencing multi-dimensional poverty.
“We are going to probe subsidy payments in the last eight years, at least that under the immediate past administration of Muhammadu Buhari because nobody seems to be looking in that direction,” Ajaero said.
He stated that the labour movement would come up with a definite position on the removal of subsidies after the NEC meeting taking place at the moment.
