Abuja, Oct 15, 2012 (SPS) - The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has decided to send a high-level delegation, including NLC’s vice-president and prominent leaders, to attend work of the seventh congress of the Saharawi Workers Union (UGTSARIO), confirmed Abdulwahed Ibrahim Omar, in a meeting on Friday with the Saharawi Ambassador in Nigeria Mr. Oubi Bachraya Bashir, according to SADR Embassy in Abuja.
NLC President thanked UGTSARIO for the invitation to attend work of their 7th congress.
“Such participation is the least we can do to clearly express our solidarity with the Saharawi people and their trade union movement, until they achieve their legitimate goals of freedom and independence,” said Friday Mr. Abdulwahed Ibrahim Omar, President of Nigerian Labour Congress.
During the meeting, the Nigerian Official expressed admiration of the African trade union movement to the prominent role played by Saharawi workers in the battle of liberation and building the institutions of the Saharawi Republic in exile.
On other hand, Mr. Abdulwahed Omar denounced the policies of repression and confiscation of Saharawi civil and trade union rights by Morocco.
It should be recalled that Nigerian Labour Congress is the biggest trade union gathering in Africa of more than 30 affiliated trade unions and 6 million workers.
It leads the movement of solidarity with the Saharawi people.
In this respect, there exists office of the Nigerian Forum of Solidarity with Saharawi People, which was inaugurated by the Saharawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz during the state visit he paid to Nigeria on October 2010. (SPS)
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