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The Nigeria Labour Congress has vowed to embark on a series of demonstrations across the country to protest the evil face of deregulation in Nigeria.

After months of speculations, the Nigeria Labour Congress has embarked on nationwide protests in selected cities in the country to demonstrate against the wickedness of the ruling class in their implementation of the deregulation of the oil stream sector. The deregulation lacks human face and the labour leaders are saying no to the deregulation exercise.

For the past two weeks, Nigerians have been suffering untold hardships as a result of deregulation implementation gone awry. The price of pms has gone from official =N=65 to =N=90 and =N=100 per litre. Worse still, the product is not even available for purchase for the long-suffering Nigerians. The world is being weighed down by the effects of the global financial crisis and world leaders are doing all they could to cushion the impart of the crisis on their nationals. It is only in Nigeria that the effects mean nothing to the leaders who live-off the tax-payers money and give out the ostrich mannerisms in the face of the trauma Nigerians are facing currently.

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The president on Monday the 11th of May has told the world that the fuel crisis would still last for another two weeks. I wonder where that left the poor artisans who depend on fuel to run their generating sets by themselves. The kind of economic policies being practiced in Nigeria has brought no relief to Nigerians as the leaders are only interested in implementing policies that would favour them and their cronies. Their resort to stealing from the public coffer is legendary and has no rival in the world.

The NLC is asking that the minimum salary of a Nigerian worker be raised a bit so that they too would survive the shocking effects of the global financial crisis, but the government of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is saying no to the yearnings of the labour unions in Nigeria.

This is praying for the labour unions to achieve their aim for embarking on the demonstrations even though about forty-two of their leaders have been invited by the police who insisted that the labour leaders did not obtain permit for the rallies they have embarked on today.