Federal government don talk say some of di agreements wey dem reach with members of di organised labour during di October 2023 negotiation meeting no fit happen sharp sharp.
Government come explain say one of di agreements, wey be to set up conversion centres for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) go take small time before e go happen, dem stress say di committee wey dey handle am don waka far.
Na before dem bin report how both di leaders of di organised labour and di representatives of government enter Memorandum of Understanding on October 2, 2023 after dem reach 16-point agreement.
Di agreement na for government to address di suffer wey people dey suffer from fuel subsidy removal and find lasting solution to di devaluation of di naira, inflation, insecurity among others.
As dem no happy with di way wey government dey handle di matter, members of di organised labour declare say dem go start nationwide strike for di next 14 days starting from February 9, 2024 if dem no implement those agreements.
But as dem dey address journalists for Abuja on Friday, di Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, maintain say all di agreements no fit happen at once, e come call on labour leaders to give dem more time.
“Dis agreements, all of dem no go fit happen di same day. Some no fit happen for two, three or four months. Like di CNG, na process wey dey happen, and I don tell Nigerians wetin di CNG group don dey do for di last four months.
“We don start to dey deliver on those agreements. We don dey reach out to di organised labour because di President dey committed to these agreements, e get good faith, na why we no want make anybody shut down di economy at any time because e go affect everybody.
“E be like say you wan pull down di whole roof of house, meanwhile, you still dey inside di roof. We no dey run from implementing di agreements wey we don enter with di organised labour,” na wetin Onyejeocha tell journalists for di briefing.
Onyejeocha come talk say di government, through di Ministry of Finance, don buy up to 11,500 CNG vehicles, including buses and tricycles, wey President Bola Tinubu go soon roll out.
According to am, di ministry go work with di Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) to make sure say dem visit di refineries for on-the-spot assessment of di refineries no delay again.
E come add, “As government dey continue to dey committed to improve di welfare of Nigerians, dem don also make provisions for initial 55,000 CNG conversion kits as part of di start of di auto gas conversion programme.
“Dem dey also dey develop state-of-the-art CNG conversion centres nationwide with di aim to deliver 1 million converted bi-fuel CNG/PMS vehicles to make transporters and mass transit operators convert their vehicles wey dey run on PMS to gas (wey be forty to fifty percent cheaper than PMS).”
Source: Prime 9ja Online Pidgin: Government talk say some agreements with labour go delay