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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here         Daily Independent Online.         * Thursday, July 08, 2004. NASS won’t support anti-labour bill, Rep assures By Onyekachi Eze Senior Reporter, Abuja The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Inter-parliamentary Relations, Mr. Peter Jiya, has assured that there is no way the National Assembly will accede to any bill seeking to scrap the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) without seeking the views of members of the public. Jiya, who spoke with Daily Independent on the reported move by President Olusegun Obasanjo to forward the anti-labour bill to the National Assembly, said no responsible government would like to silence the voice of the opposition. “Any responsible government will want a situation whereby the labour organisation will be very constructive, will be very responsive in their demands and in their agitations for the welfare of working force. I do not see anybody wanting to scrap it,” he assured. He said that if there is any move in this regard by the government, such bill might be to amend or correct some defects that might be in the labour law. “It is not only in that aspect of our national life, but there are defects in so many other areas, particularly our laws made under the military dispensation. Under the democratic setting, there is need for review of some of those laws. And perhaps sometimes you don’t get to that until an opportunity or crisis situation comes, you now look at the law again and you now feel or wish that there could be an amendment. May be that is the kind of wish that is on,” Jiya contended. On the withholding of allocations to newly created local government councils, the lawmaker, who is from Niger State, believes that there should have been some consultations before that decision was taken, particularly at the party level. He appealed for review of the policy “for the sake of teaming population at the grassroots who have not been privileged to get their salaries for the past two to three months”. The lawmaker stated that there was a better way to resolve the matter amicably and faster, adding that “we have examined and seen there may be better way to handle the issue and still arrive at whatever justifiable result that it is intended to achieve”.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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