The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has tasked Governor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai of Kaduna State and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to urgently rejig the security architecture of the country.
NLC said there is hardly any day that passes without incidents of armed robbery, kidnap for ransom, militancy or terrorism making headlines.
The union also frowned and kicked against any move by the federal government to increase the Value Added Tax, VAT.
President of the NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, stated this during the state delegate congress of the NLC in Kaduna on Thursday.
Wabba, who called for a new and sustainable effort towards tackling renewed security challenges in the country said, “the current approach has failed.”
The Labour leader opined that there should be an increase in the security budget, noting that it would bring about socio-economic transformation, only if the money is judiciously and transparently used.
Wabba, who was represented by Comrade Ibrahim Walama, noted that the chaos in the electoral space is only symptomatic of the crisis of governance bedevilling the country.
According to him, the challenges before Nigerian workers are quite humongous and daunting.
Although he admitted that the challenges facing the union are not insurmountable, the NLC President called on governments at all levels to cut down on the high cost of governance and corruption.
“Cutting down on high cost of governance and corruption, the governors will be more than able to pay the new national minimum wage of N30,000,″ he said.
Earlier, the outgoing chairman of NLC, Kaduna Council, Comrade Adamu Ango said his period of stewardship was characterised by lots of challenges ranging from breakdown of good relationship with government and the dismissal of thousands of workers without payment of their entitlements.
He said he was however optimistic that there is a ray of hope with the coming dispensation, adding that labour leaders and the union would be the better for it.
