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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Police abort NLC rally in Yenagoa By Samuel Oyadongha Friday, August 27, 2004 Yenagoa — The Bayelsa State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) protest rally against the Labour Bill was yesterday aborted by armed policemen who restricted the labour officials to the armed forces arcade parade ground opposite Government House in Yenagoa. It was learnt that the state NLC officials had earlier applied for police permit to enable labour organise the protest rally which was expected to terminate at the state assembly but had their request turned down by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Oliver Osuchukwu. But the police authorities in anticipation of labour’s next line of action mobilised its men in three vehicles to effectively monitor the streets of the capital city and succeeded in restricting the rally to the confines of the parade ground. Efforts by the executive members of the state NLC to prevail on the police team to allow the rally proceed as planned was rebuffed as the Police confined the rally to the  Arcade ground. Speaking at the rally, chairman of the state NLC, Comrade Ben Basuo called on Nigerian workers and the National Assembly to resist what he described as President Olusegun Obasanjo's deliberate attempt to reduce the Nigerian masses to the status of servitude. Comrade Basuo noted that President Obasanjo's Labour Bill, among others, aims to proscribe the NLC and destroy labour. He called on members of the National Assembly not to support the bill. According to him, the bill, if passed, would strip Nigerian workers of their right to protest any government policies inimical to their interest. He noted that apart from deregistering the NLC, it would give the central government unfettered power to increase the price of petroleum products to N150 which would be beyond the reach of the common man.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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