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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here         Daily Independent Online.         * Monday, August 23, 2004. No going back on Labour bill, says Obasanjo By Tokunbo Oloruntola News Editor   President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday said he would not withdraw or review the Labour bill, even as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is revving up protest plans against it. Articulating the government’s position, he told selected editors in a television chat that it is hypocritical for Labour, any one or groups to oppose the proposed law. The President insisted that he does not contemplate giving the bill, now before the National Assembly, a second look. Said he: “I have sent what I think is good to the National Assembly. In a democratic dispensation, that there must be conventions and rules guiding how people or groups behave or relate. “Why should we talk of democracy for one group and not for Labour?” What is good for other groups in a democratic dispensation must also be good for Labour”. On the Darfur, Sudan peace parley that he will chair today in Abuja, Obasanjo advised the delegates to negotiate and grant concessions in order to break the stalemate in the bloody conflict. The delegates, including that of the Sudanese Government, the President stressed, should have the clout to negotiate and grant concessions, otherwise the talks would be futile. Apart from the capability to negotiate, Obasanjo explained that the Sudanese Government should allow access to humanitarian organisations to supply relief materials to Darfur. Another crucial area the delegates should tackle, in his view, is how to disarm the three major armed groups in the town.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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