The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), says it has concluded plans to stage a nationwide protest on Wednesday, December 17, to draw the attention of the Nigerian government to worsening insecurity situation in the country and compel urgent action from stakeholders.
Mr. Joe Ajaero, the President of the NLC who stated this while speaking with journalists in Gombe on Saturday after meeting Governor Inuwa Yahaya, said the escalating insecurity, killings and abductions in the country was worrisome and called for urgent action.
Ajaero said the nationwide protest would demand a decisive action from the federal government against insecurity, stressing as the situation now affects every Nigerian, regardless of status or occupation.
“Banditry and violent crimes were alien to Nigeria’s culture and must be collectively condemned to reverse …a dangerous national narrative,” Ajaero said.
He added that due to insecurity, the country’s economy was damaged and Nigeria’s ability to attract local and foreign investors had been drastically affected and weakened.
“Our planned protest is to call attention to the impact of insecurity on investors and workers, who are kidnapped daily and sometimes killed,” Ajaero said.
Referencing the abduction of students in Kebbi and Niger states, the NLC President said such incidents must be stamped out of the government is serious about tackling insecurity.
“So, we are asking the government to help fish out the perpetrators and put an end to this menace.
“Government should know their hands are being strengthened to do the needful because Nigerians are saying this is wrong and must stop,” he said.
Ajaero stressed that the ordinary Nigerian workers suffer severely, as kidnapped persons often lack ransom money and resort to borrowing or begging to survive.
“It is important for workers to join the call to end insecurity, unless government wants to give us security allowance to pay ransom.
“We don’t have guns or cutlasses to chase criminals; protest is our only voice to Nigerians and the international community,” he said.
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