Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to stage a protest if Morocco is admitted as member Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS).
The congress also lobbied other trade unions from the sub region to prevail on their respective governments not to vote in favour of Morocco.
It would be recalled that Morocco from the North Africa, applied to be member of ECOWAS.
President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba who spoke at a workshop organised by Organisation of Trade Unions of West Africa (OTUWA) said records had shown that Morocco was ‘use to quarreling with its neighbours’.
“Comrades, permit me to use this occasion to comment on the report that the Kingdom of Morocco has applied to become a member of ECOWAS. For us in the NLC, we do not know where in the treaty establishing the organisation either in its original form in 1975, or the subsequent amendments, that we can find a clause permitting a geographically non-West African state to become a member of the organisation.
“Our concern in the NLC is that Morocco has a record of quarreling with its neighbours and even the entire continent. That’s why it stayed away from the OAU, later AU for over 30 years.
“It is on the basis of this quarrelsomeness that the Arab Mahreb Union, whose headquarters is in Morocco, has been unable to function because the Kingdom is not in good terms with Algeria and its other member states.
“Similarly, we cannot be hobnobbing with a monarchy which is against the wish of the International Community, the UN and the AU, to be specific, has continued to illegally occupy Western Sahara, and is holding it as a colony”. Wabba said.
