‘No work for us’ – Labour unions protest at NAFDAC Lagos office

The ongoing quality betwixt labour unions and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, reached its seventh time connected Thursday, arsenic members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, and the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, FOBTOB, staged a objection astatine the agency’s Isolo bureau successful Lagos.

Protesters, chanting “No enactment for us, nary enactment for you,” blocked entree to the bureau from astir 7:00 a.m., preventing unit from entering the premises for astir 2 hours.

Operations were temporarily suspended until officers from the Nigeria Police Force, Odi-Olowo Division, intervened, reopening the entranceway by astir 11:00 a.m. The protestation remained peaceful, with nary reports of violence.

Union officials affirmed that their objection would persist until their grievances are afloat addressed, including the reopening of sealed factories and the reversal of consequent unit dismissals.

“This is Day 7, and we are not backing down. We volition proceed until our concerns are acknowledged,” Jeffery Igein, National Secretary of FOBTOB said, reflecting the sentiments of the hundreds of workers gathered extracurricular the office.

The concern enactment follows NAFDAC’s enforcement of a prohibition connected sachet intoxicant and 10cl PET bottled products, which has led to the closure of galore indigenous factories, depots, and warehouses crossed the country.