The President of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba has said that past leaders of the country lost focus on how to overcome the challenges of “poverty and unemployment”.
He said the situation was responsible for the various ethno-religious crisis and Boko Haram insurgency in the North East.
Wabba disclosed this yesterday while addressing workers at his grand reception organized by the Labour Movement in Borno State and the state government at the University of Maiduguri.
His words: “Failure to overcome these challenges will, however, continue to make all of us here in this hall and beyond to be lamenting, instead of moving the country forward.”
He said the country cannot have peace, until there was “social justice and equity” across the various segments of the nation.
This, he said will make the entire citizenry to have a sense of belonging, and contribute their respective quotas in the rebuilding and reformation of the country.
On transparency and accountability, the NLC President said: “The issue of transparency and good governance will also determine the full implementation of the ‘clamoured changes’ that President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressive Congress (APC) wanted to effect and sustain for better Nigeria among the comity of nations.”
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