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National Assembly Urged to Reject Labour Bill Bauchi From Segun Awofadeji Worried by President Olusegun Obasanjo's bill sent to the National Assembly on restructuring of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Bauchi State NLC Chairman, Comrade Iliyasu Ibrahim Zwall, has urged the National Assembly to dismiss the bill, describing it as anti-democracy and anti-labour. Speaking with THISDAY yesterday in Bauchi, Zwall urges Nigerians to resist Obasanjo's new move to destabilise and clip the wings of labour saying the attempt was "more or less a coup against workers and Nigerian masses. He said the bill would be in breach of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention if passed into law, and will give the country a bad image. He said whether the President likes it or not, the NLC still remains a major opposing force in Nigeria. According to him, "Since the NLC has become an opposing force to reckoned with, particularly since the inception of this government to an extent that the president does not feel comfortable any longer, he thought the best way out of his myriads of problems was to clip the wings of the NLC." He advised Obasanjo to listen to the voice of reason and withdraw the bill, because no government can successfully drive away opposition. Zwall said "the masses constitute majority of the nation's population, and any government that does not take the masses into consideration before formulating policies will not be supported by the people, so, attempts to sponsor a bill to decentralise NLC would be rejected." He said the union was the only body that has been fighting against anti-masses policies of government and that its (NLC) decentralisation was not healthy for democracy explaining that if government succeed in decentralising the union, " it would then embark on anti-masses programmes without any form of resistance and the masses would suffer untold hardship." Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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