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Nigerians impatient with chaos, lack of action in Buhari administration-NLC

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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here’s anger. There’s agitation. But most of all there is impatience, as Nigerians watch the ‘ Change’ government of the ruling APC and the drama unfolding in the Buhari administration, according to the Nigerian workers on Sunday.

“Against the background of the campaign promise of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government to create three million jobs annually, this statistics from the NBS underscores the grave and depressing situation of the Nigerian economic landscape in 2017, said NLC President, Comrade Abubakar Wabba, in his New Year message.

“Rather than work to create jobs and improve the condition of Nigerian working people and Nigerians in general, leading elements in the ruling APC government, like Governor Nasir el-Rufai, have been taking measures to further chastise and ruin Nigerians by throwing tens of thousands of workers into the already saturated unemployment market and wretchedness.

“In the same vein, despite the huge revenue that the states have received through the Federal Government intervention funds to clear arrears of unpaid salaries and pensions in many states of the federation, coupled with additional payment of three tranches of windfall, (Paris Club debt refunds), states like Kogi, Osun, Benue, Ekiti, Bayelsa and several others entered 2018 with huge arrears spanning up to ten (10) or more months of wages and pensions.

“Under these conditions, Nigerian workers, pensioners and their families remained the most despondent group in an economy that even the well-to-do are groaning and struggling to survive. No wonder,  our country is one of the worst, known for having many hungry people in the world according to the World Hunger Index report 2017.”

 

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