Umahi Says NLC Protest Doesn’t Show Patriotism.
Minister of Works David Umahi has described as unpatriotic the national protests by the Nigerian Labor Congress.
His comment, made on Monday while inspecting the Enugu-Port Harcourt Road, is in reaction to the recent protests by the NLC over the precarious economic situation in the country.
Soaring inflation, at 29.9 per cent in February, and the consequent cost of living and hunger across the country had led to protests by citizens with the NLC holding a nationwide strike on Tuesday last week.
Umahi, however, believes the latest protest is one too many under the less-than-a-year-old President Bola Tinubu administration.
For the minister, contrary to the position of labor and despite the current situation, the government had set things in motion for better times ahead.
On Thursday, two days after the NLC protest, the President chided the unions during an official visit to Lagos State to commission the Red Line train.
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