The President of the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, has said that the Nigerian government has the financial means available to meet the demands of the trade union, but they, however, lack the will to “actually do what is right.”

The TUC President made this statement in an interview with ARISE NEWS PRIMETIME on Monday night, where he also claimed that the government has stopped the promised 6-month wage award payment after the first payment was made.

While Osifo was questioned if economic reasons could be the reason for the government not keeping up with payment agreements, he said, “If you’ve signed an agreement and you’re finding it difficult to implement, what you do normally is for you to call the other party, and you sit down together. But we don’t even think that is the challenge, we don’t think that is the problem.

“Because today, you could see from the federation account how much they share every month, it has doubled compared to the figures that they were sharing or the amount of money that they were sharing as at April/May. Today, they share trillions of naira, that shows that even if the value of this money has plummeted, even if the value has gone down, but the physical note is there, the volume has actually gone up.

Source: Arise News