The Nigeria Labour Congress has urged President Muhammadu Buhariiority to the need to fix the economy and getting the country out of
recession in 2017.
General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, also
advised the President to address the plight of workers by commencing the
process for the determination of a new Minimum Wage in the country.The NLC’s scribe
who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone on Saturday also advised the
President to sustain the ongoing campaign against corruption
but to ensure that the campaign was carried out in accordance with the ław.He said, “The single most important thing he (President Buhari)
should do is that he should put his economic policy act together to fix the
economy, get the economy out of recession. That is number one because it
impacts on everything else.
The other things that they would need to do from our own
perspective are that they they need to visit the plight of workers and then
commence the process for the fixing of the minimum wage.“Thirdly, we need to sustain the fight against corruption but we
need to carry that fight on within the ambit of the law.”Ozo-Eson who also commented on the killings in Southern Kaduna
said that the crisis was indicative of security breakdown across the country.He criticised the government for failing to respond to reports
of mass killings in Southern Kaduna stressing that the life of the average
Nigerian should not be portrayed to be so cheap.
He argued that celebrating the exploits of troops in the North
East especially the taking over of the Sambisa Forest would not translate to
happiness if the defeat of one security threat was being marred by the
emergence of several security threats in other areas of the country. Ozo-Eson called for a comprehensive evaluation of the nation’s
security into order to deal comprehensively with the causes of insecurity in
the land.“Well, what is happening in Southern Kaduna is unacceptable but
it us part of a larger collapse of security across the country.
We have been
inundated with various parts of the country with all manners of killings,
whether it is attack of herdsmen, or attack of cattle rustlers, all manner of
security breakdown across the country.“And I think that this needs to be put into perspective.
Nigerian life should not be regarded as so cheap that we hear of this massive
killings and it does not ginger the government to act.
We are celebrating the liberation as it were of the Sambisa
Forest; we are right now celebrating the achievement of our military in
fighting the Boko Haram, but if you are just defeating one security threat in
one place and several of it are resurfacing in other places, then that does not
call for happiness.”However, he advised Nigerians against attributing the attacks to
ethnicity saying that such attacks should be situated within the larger break
down of security across the country.
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