The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria has just announced that it is geared to start a nationwide strike on Tuesday, February 27.
The National President of AMBCON, Mansur Umar, had in a statement released on Monday, February 26, said that unless the Federal Government honours the agreement made with the association in 2020, the strike would commence.
Umar had also urged for temporary suspension of all types of taxation on the bakery industry at the federal, state, and local government levels respectively.
The statement read:
“The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria have evaluated and accessed the state of our business operation, and consequently, demand the liberalisation of flour and sugar importation, reduction or complete removal of import duties on major baking materials like flour, sugar, butter, yeast, etc as applicable to other commodities as have recently been done by the Federal Government and provision of concessionary forex exchange to flour millers and other stakeholders as well as decrease of tariff on imported wheat and sugar.”
It also called for the setting up of a cost control and monitoring committee as permitted by the constitution as revised and other conditions that will boost the ease of doing business in the country.
