The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has welcomed the truce reached between the Federal Government and the nation’s joint umbrella body of labour unions, specifically the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
This was contained in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the forum, Prof. Tukur Muhammad Baba
The group cautioned against the wholesale and unimaginative acceptance of out-of-context public policy solutions being preached by multilateral finance organisations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
“It should be instructive to our policymakers that Southeast Asian nations pulled themselves out of the economic crisis of the 1980s and 1990s by largely ignoring, not by accepting, the policy prescriptions of the multilateral agencies,” the statement said.
While sympathising with the organised labour, the ACF said it had been concerned, apprehensive and edgy that a protracted labour strike would amount to a double jeopardy for the people of the North already disadvantaged.
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