Sunday Adeleye, the Chairman of the Joint Negotiating Council, Ondo State chapter, has said the ongoing protest against petrol price hike was the only way workers could express their grievances.
Adeleye, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Akure on Wednesday, said workers would go back to work as soon as the government honoured their demands.

Also speaking, Solomon Igbelowowa, the Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Teachers in the state, said he did not expect that any faction of the labour movement would refuse to join the strike.


Igbelowowa said workers, especially teachers, would ensure that their demands are met by the government before returning to work.

NAN reports that protesters blocked the popular Oba-Adesida Road carrying placards, even as some public institutions, including banks, were under lock and key as at the time of this report.

Some of the placards read: “Increase in fuel price hike is illegal” and “N13.76 plus N86. 50 is not equal to N145.”

Many security operatives were present at the venue of the protest to maintain law and order but efforts made by NAN to speak with the state police command’s spokesman, Femi Joseph, failed.


NAN.