Security: Current Situation Has Failed, NLC Tells Buhari

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC on Thursday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rejig the current security architecture in the country with the conclusion that the current system has failed the country.
The Congress also concluded that the widening gap in poverty between the rich and the poor in the country and the increasing spate of mis-governance as well as non-payment of salaries by state government has been largely responsible for the increase in violent crime of armed robbery, kidnapping for ransom and other vices.
In his message to states’ Delegates Conference of the Congress, President of Congress, Ayuba Wabba also warned the government against the planned increased in Value Added Tax, VAT and adhering to the recommendation of the International Monetary Fund, IMF to remove subsidy on petroleum products, saying such an exercise would erode the gains of the new minimum wage recently signed into law.
Wabba also informed workers that, now that the agitation for a new national minimum wage was over, workers should be conscious of the fact the minimum wage is not a gift to them from the government, insisting however that employers of labour should immediately commence the implementation.