The Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO) yesterday announced a
mass action, scheduled for April 10, against cheats of pensioners, who
are collectively owed over one trillion Naira throughout the country.
The announcement followed a press briefing at the headquarters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), on Friday.
LASCO said it was adopting the decision of the central working
committee of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NCL), Trade Union Congress
(TUC) and the Joint Action Front (JAF) taken in a meeting of April 3, to
intervene on behalf of pensioners who have been denied their
entitlements in a long time. That meeting made sympathy for the owed
pensioners its major subject of deliberation and emerged with the
resolution to hold a mass protest in order to compel the government’s
attention to the plight of the deprived pensioners.
The protest, dubbed ‘Mass Action against Corruption and Impunity in
Government’, will be held in Lagos and Abuja, LASCO said, and will
demand among others, justice for pensioners, a review of the pension
fund to ensure living pensions and its prompt payment to the aged, and
the scrapping of corruption and impunity in Government.
The announcement called on workers, artisans, transporters, market
women and men, professionals, students and youths to join in its protest
to collectively demand justice in all the workings of the government.
Pensioners have always been denied their entitlements throughout
Nigerian history. Firm resistance of the deliberate holding back of
deserved pension entitlements will end the regime of cheating, LASCO
stressed.
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