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The Nigeria Labour Congress, has disclosed that the two-day nationwide protest by its members is about hunger and the economic hardship facing the nation.<\/p>\n

Revealing this to the public on Tuesday, the National President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, led this out while addressing newsmen in Abuja.<\/p>\n

He said that, contrary to the claim made by the Presidency that the ongoing protest is needless and about the minimum wage review, the union is not protesting only about the review of the country\u2019s minimum wage.<\/p>\n

Ajaero said: \u201cYou have to understand it. This protest is about hunger. What of those who are not working?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe minimum wage, when will it be completed? When will it be implemented? What will be the minimum wage that will remove hunger?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UN said that every poorest man should be fed on $2 per day. That\u2019s the poorest. And if you have a family of six people, $2 per day by six is $12.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn a month, you have $360 which translates to about N700,000. Is that the minimum wage you\u2019re talking about? Is that what will feed you? That\u2019s feeding alone. I\u2019m not talking about transportation and accommodation. So what are we saying? What about medical? What are we saying?<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you know, we don\u2019t, we don\u2019t tell them what to do. We will tell them how we feel. There was hunger in the land, but it wasn\u2019t this bad until deregulation. And then after the regulation, we proposed all that we needed to. If they had solved the problem of transportation immediately, they would have solved almost 50% of the problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the moment they touch PMS, you can\u2019t fill your tank with N30,000, N40,000. So the moment they touched it. We said, \u2018OK, bring CNG buses. This is 7-8 months, no one bus is on the street.\u201d<\/p>\n

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