What FG Must Do Before Toll Gates Return – Labour

Organised Labour has rejected the proposed plan by the Federal Government to re-introduce toll gates on federal highways across Nigeria.

Labour who made this known on Sunday, October 6, at the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, called on the government to put in place an efficient policy before returning toll gates.

While the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, said the toll gates would worsen people’s misery and raise the poverty level in the country, the United Labour Congress, said the only condition for Nigerians to accept a return of toll gates on federal roads is a drastic reduction in pump prices of petroleum products.

It contended that the money to be realized from toll gates was factored into pump prices of fuel before they were dismantled in 2003.

The ULC also urged Nigerians to reject the planned tax on GSM calls, lamenting that government had in recent times been emasculating the ordinary Nigerians with several tax burdens.

The Trade Union Congress, TUC, on its part, also rejected the planned re-introduction of toll gates by the Federal Government.