The Senate has today, expressed support for the Federal Government's decision to increase the price of petrol to N145, disregarding the hardship that the hike has caused Nigerians.
The Nigerian Senate
After an executive session on Tuesday, the Nigerian Senate announced its decision to support the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government's decision to increase the price of petrol to N145.
The deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, who gave the report of the executive session, said the lawmakers deliberated on the price hike and the threat by the NLC.
"The Senate sympathise with the people of Nigeria on the hardship brought by the hike," Ekweremadu said.
Stating further, Ekweremadu said the Senate resolved to engage the Labour on the need to suspend its planned strike 'in order not to ground the system', adding that the Senate would engage the government on 'how best' the policy could be sustained and implemented.
Ekweremadu unbehalf of the senate, urged the Federal Government to start implementing the palliative measures as approved in the 2016 Appropriations Act to assuage the suffering of the people.
Below are confirmation tweets posted by the lawmaker's official handle;
The Nigerian Labour Congress already opposed the policy, threatening to embark on a strike from Wednesday, but aviation workers and their counterparts in the oil sector, are backing the policy which the lawmaker today, also supported.
It can be recalled that on Monday, the House of Representatives also urged the NLC to suspend the planned strike and set up an ad hoc committee to interface between Labour and the government.