By Victor Ahiuma-Young

LAGOS—NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, led by Joe Ajaero and the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Intuitions Employees, NUBIFIE, yesterday dismissed media reports that the planned picketing of banks involved in recent mass sack of workers had been suspended, insisting that any moment from now, the affected banks would feel the wrath of workers.

There were reports in the media Thursday that Ayuba Wabba-led NLC and Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, met in Abuja, where it was agreed among others, that the planned picketing had been suspended.

But in a joint statement by Joe Ajaero and Mohammed Sheirk, General Secretary of NUBIFIE, NLC faction and NUBIFIE vowed to use the banks to demonstrate the powers of the labour movement in as the bastion of the people’s morality.

NLC and NUBIFIE, in the statement said: “We have not called off any proposed action against the banks, and until the conditions we had set out are met, which unfortunately is not the case though some of the Banks have entered into discussions with us, we will go ahead.”