The Role of National Assembly in Conflict Resolution: A Case of Anti- Subsidy Strikes of  2012

Eme Okechukwu I; Eme Okechukwu I

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Eme Okechukwu I
Eme Okechukwu I

Keywords:

legislature, subsidy, corruption, investigative panel, conflict and conflict resolution and petroleum products

Abstract

The legislature has added the responsibility of conflict mediation and resolution to its numerous functions. The legislature has established an enviable record of performance in this area. For instance, since 1999 the legislature has positively intervened and settled several government-labour disputes, be it over minimum wage, ASUU demands for better conditions of service in the Universities or most recently, the fuel subsidy strike. The timing of the removal of subsidy from petroleum products by the Executive was most inauspicious. It came at a time when majority of Nigerians were in their various villages and communities for the Christmas and New Year festivities. They were trapped and stranded as they could not afford the huge escalation in fuel price which moved from N65 to N140 per litre of petrol in the average Nigerian community. No one anticipated such sudden sharp increase as Nigerians had planned the budget for their trips based on existing cost parameters and indices. People were thus thrown into unavoidable economic turmoil and even reduced to the level of destitution and beggary.

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The Role of National Assembly in Conflict Resolution: A Case of Anti- Subsidy Strikes of 2012. (2014). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 14(F2), 51-62. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1130

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