The Governor of Niger State, Umaru Bago, has given two trucks of 50kg bags of rice for the State’s Nigeria Labour Congress, the state chapter as palliatives to mitigate the effects of fuel subsidy removal.
According to the Nation, Governor Bago disclosed this during the reception to celebrate the newly constructed office of the Deputy Governor, Mr Yakubu Garba in Minna, the state capital.
He explained that the N110 million initially approved for NLC was for their logistics to monitor the distribution process of the palliatives across the 274 wards of the state.
“Labour, we have given you work to go round and supervise the palliatives’ distribution, but for the labour union, we have not given you palliatives.
“We only gave you logistics to go round and supervise distribution, now as a government, we will give you two trucks of 50kg for distribution,” he said.
Bago further said that the money was for the members of the NLC to effectively monitor the distribution process to ensure that the palliatives get to everyone.
He then admonished the union to shelve its ongoing two-day warning strike and congratulated the deputy governor on his new office.
Rematking, Garba, thanked the governor for a cordial working relationship and vowed to discharge his responsibility for the progress and development of the state.
