There are signs that the Trade Union Congress (TUC) might quickly direct its members to boycott work if the challenge of fuel shortage across the country persists for the next couple of days.

Those the TUC plans to pass the directive throughout in the coming days are employees in statutory corporations and government-owned organizations.

The Congress also are not also comfortable with the presidency, which they have actually demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari be more proactive in determining and penalizing those who are behind the shortage that has brought unknown hardship upon Nigerians.

National Treasurer of TUC, Mohammad Yunusa, offered the threat throughout an interview with Labour Correspondents in Abuja at weekend throughout the delegate conference of Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government-Owned Companies (SSASCGOC).

Yunusa, who was also immediate past President-General of SSASCGOC, discussed that members of his association have currently been directed to remain at their respective homes pending when there will be a regular supply of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called Petrol.

He stated, “The union’s position is really clear. Those who caused this scarcity ought to be identified and punished extremely well. The position of SSASCGOC likewise is that, you understand we are connected to TUC, and we have made it recognized to TUC that let the employees stop going to work until there suffices fuel to take them to work.

“This is the way to do it. We are waiting on our centre to react to our position but our position in SSASCGOC is that there is no need to go to work. Hang around in your home. When the fuel, the one they are stating billion of litres of petrol is coming, when it comes, and there is routine supply, then we will start going to work.”

Reacting to the month-long strike embarked upon by members of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the TUC leader chided the Federal Government over what he described as indifferent mindset towards education systems in Nigeria’s tertiary organizations.

He worried that the Federal Government had on lots of occasions signed Memorandum of Understanding with lots of unions without satisfying its guarantees at the end of the day.

According to him, “The major issue unionism has in Nigeria is that the federal governments do not listen. You can’t have useful engagements with the government in Nigeria.

“Let’s take a look at the case of ASUU, they are talking about the agreement they got in with the Federal Government many years back, and until now, the federal government has actually not satisfied it.

“So, throughout the years, because there is no useful engagements, it is when you call out your members for strike that federal government will listen to you.”