Labour to Buhari: Nigeria is dieing, show us the blueprint on job creation

The Nigerian Labour Congress has asked the Federal Regime to insert place vigorous measures to revive the ailing country’s economy, verbally expressing the country was bleeding and need exigent attention.
Verbalizing at the 2016 May Day celebration in Abuja, President of the NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba verbalized it was hapless that one year into life of the APC led federal regime, the regime was yet to bring out a blueprint for the engenderment of the three million jobs annually contained in its manifesto. While admitting that the unemployment crisis in the country is a reflection of the wider national economic crisis, Wabba verbally expressed “we have sedulously pointed out, there is remotely any household in Nigeria where there aren’t at least two or more unemployed persons who have graduated from sundry tiers of our scholastic system, probing for job placement for upward of three to five years.” “The ruling APC regime in its manifesto promised to engender three million jobs annually. We have waited one year for the regime to bring out its blueprints on how it intends to go about achieving this. “Congress will seek audience with Mr. President to get more information on this paramount matter.

On our component as workers, we will be yare and inclined to contribute to any effort to engender a ‘Job Engenderment Fund,’ nationally to tackle this quandary. “Our worry as organized labour is that if no concrete convictions are secured in the many corruption tribulations going on, between now and the next 12-15months, those who have glommed these sizably voluminous fortunes will commence feeling that they can outlive the Buahri Presidency, and return to a regime of “business as usual” as far as corruption is concerned.” He stressed that while in the last twelve months of the Presidency of President Buhari, INEC has been left to run its show as it deemed fit, the desperation of politicians of the two mainstream political parties gives of cause for concern.

“Unless the unfinished reforms commenced with the partial implementation of the Equity Mohammed Uwais’ electoral reform committee are consummated, we visually perceive perils ahead. “Among these reforms waiting to be implemented is the establishment of the Electoral Offences Commission. “For us in organized labour, unless our politicians ken that there is authentic possibility that their electoral rascalities carry authentic penalties of jail terms or long term disqualification from contesting for public offices, the type of ignominious mayhem witnessed during the recent election in Rivers and other states would perpetuate unabated. “Similarly, unless we fine-tune the procedure for the appointment of the chairman and key officers of the electoral management body as recommended in the Equity Uwais report, the current progress made in the independence and operations of INEC are not irreversible”.