BY AMOS TAUNA, KADUNA – Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Thursday tasked President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to urgently rejig the security architecture of the country.
This is just as the Labour Movement noted that the chaos in the electoral space is only symptomatic of the crises of governance bedeviling the country.
President of the NLC, Comrade Ayuba Waba, who stated the position of Labour during the Kaduna State Delegate Congress of the Congress, stressed that cutting down on high cost of governance and corruption would enable governors to pay the new national minimum wage of N30,000.
The NLC President noted that there is hardly a day that passes without an incident of armed robbery, kidnapping for ransom, militancy or terrorists attacks making headlines and therefore called for a robust and sustainable security plans for the renewed security challenges in the country.
The Labour movement frowned and kicked against any move by the federal government to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT).
Waba, who was represented by Comrade Ibrahim Walama, said the challenges before Nigerian workers are quite humongous and daunting, adding however that they are not insurmountable and therefore urged governments at all levels to cut down on high cost of governance and corruption.
Waba further said; βThe current approach has failed. There should be an increase in the security budget to bring about socio-economic transformation, only if the money is judiciously and transparently used.β
Earlier, the outgoing Chairman of the Kaduna State chapter of the NLC, Comrade Adamu Ango, said his period of stewardship was characterized by lots of challenges ranging from breaking out of good relationship with government and the dismissal of thousands of workers without payment of their entitlements.
He however expressed optimism that there would be a new ray of hope in the coming dispensation adding that the Labour leaders and movement will be better for it.
