The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole declared on Thursday that the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai is responsible for increased banditry, kidnappings and all forms of insecurity in the state, According to tribuneonline report.
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Speaking at the 2nd Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) National Peace and Security Summit, in Abuja, President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba and Oshiomhole, also drew a nexus between the activities of Governor El-Rufai, who they claimed have sacked over 29,000 workers in the state from the year 2016 till date.
While emphasizing the causes of insecurity, Comrade Wabba said the political leaders should be ready to take responsibility for the actions they took while in office.
The NLC president said, “There is a nexus between throwing workers out of their jobs and the resultant increase in unemployment and the rising wave of insecurity. The present high state of insecurity in Kaduna State has a lot to do with the penchant by the state government for throwing workers out of jobs. As we Speak, from 2016 to date, over 29,000 workers have been thrown out of their jobs in Kaduna State.
“Also tuition fees in Kaduna State have been increased by 100 per cent. What this means is that many children of the poor workers will not be able to attend good schools while the children of the rich are sent to study outside the country. The implication is that these children who dropped out of school will now be used by bad elements to perpetuate insecurity in the country.”
Wabba called on the governor of Kaduna State to rescind the decision urgently, adding that the Organised Labour has already slated five days of withdrawal of services in Kaduna State.
“All services, in all sectors, including, banks, railway, air transport and Civil Service will be withdrawn completely, in the first instance and where he does not show remorse and does not want to be called to order, Nigerian workers will follow up to withdraw their services nationwide,” he added
In his speech, Comrade Oshiomhole alleged that the over 35,000 workers recently sacked by the Kaduna State government have played a major role in contributing to the current insecurity experienced in the state.
The immediate past APC national chairman said the children that have been abandoned by the society are now grown up and turned against society for turning their back on them, adding that those that have been retrenched and are left without any means of livelihood have now been forced into crime.
Oshiomhole said, “Who are the bandits? I suspect, that those 35,000 workers in Kaduna city whose livelihood have been taken, what are they doing? What will their children and grandchildren be doing now? It is common sense to know that an idle mind, is a devil’s workshop.
“I suspect that those Nigerians that we abandoned and not provide for them, as you can call them almajiri or beggars, they have all grown up. When you talk about unemployment, the biggest problem is having the biggest population of unemployable because they never had an opportunity of being taught by a qualified teacher.”
He stated that security should not only be looked at from the aspect of what the military and police can do to restore peace, rather it should also be tackled from the issue of security of wages and jobs.
Oshiomhole, who was a former governor of Edo State lambasted his former colleagues for refusing to pay the N30,000 minimum, even when the law has prescribed N30,000 as minimum wage
He wondered why some governors for some reasons would sit and insist that the amount cannot be paid.
“When they deny workers such payment, can there be peace? I summit with International Labour Organisation that the condition for national peace and security does not necessarily need many bullets but decent jobs but when you are in an environment where jobs are being killed, jobs that do not exist cannot even be decent,” he said.
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