COVID-19: Informal sector sets 7-point agenda for govt vanguardnews
The informal sector has set a seven-point agenda for governments, saying workers in the sector had been neglected in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking on the platform of Federation of Informal Workers’ Organisations of Nigeria, FIWON, they presented a seven-point demands to the three tiers of governments, to enable informal sector workers to cope with the lockdown and restriction of movement across the country as Nigeria battles the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic.
FIWON, in a statement, decried the neglect of the sector workers by the three tiers of governments, lamenting that they had been left to their fate since the total lockdown and restriction of movement across the country.In the statement by its General Secretary, Gbenga Komolafe, FIWON demanded that “the Federal Government, in conjunction with state governments, should immediately institute the immediate implementation of aThis will cushion the devastating impact of the lockdown on the working poor without guaranteed income or social protection of any kind, boost local consumption and help local manufacturing and production value chains to quickly recover.
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