The Nigeria Labour Congress has asked governments at all levels hording Covid-19 Palliatives to release them to the public.
President of the Labor Union Ayuba Wabba said this in a statement on Monday asking for the release forthwith of all COVID-19 palliatives still stored in warehouses across the country.
The union also condemned the mass looting of both COVID-19 palliatives and non-COVID-19 items in the country.
Comrade Wanna said the distribution of the palliatives by the authorities would help assuage the sufferings of the people.
The statement partly read;
“It is obvious that the palliative provisions that were procured by government for immediate distribution to the mass of our people at their critical time of need and to assuage the hardship occasioned by the lockdown were hoarded and held back by some government officials.
“The reasons for this have not been made known to the public. We also understand that many of the palliative provisions are already getting rotten in the warehouses where they were stored.
“While we condemn the ensuing mass looting of both the Covid-19 palliatives and non-Covid-19 palliative materials, we equally deplore the conduct of some government officials who stored away relief materials that should have been distributed to the masses of our people at their very trying times of need.
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