RECESSION: NIGERIANS
LOSING FAITH IN FG’S ABILITY TO END SUFFERINGS – NLC
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IGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has
said Nigerians were beginning to feel the Federal Government lacked the
capacity to end the hardship and sufferings caused by economic recession currently
weighing down workers and the masses.
The NLC in a statement signed by the
Joe Ajaero faction, therefore, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to provide
the needed socio-economic and political leadership to restore hope and douse
the mounting despair and sufferings in the country.
The statement read: “Nigerians want
to see new jobs or a guarantee that the spate of job losses have ceased. They
want to see rice, garri, beverages and utilities within their reach and
functioning.
‘’We want to see the cost of
transport come down and the roads being repaired. We want to see that the rot
has stopped and the run on the economy turning around for the better.
“While Congress’ commends the
President for convening the national stakeholders meeting to confront the
challenges, Nigerians, however, need to see actions on the ground and not
intentions and talk shops.
‘’It is the concrete steps that the people see that
will rekindle hope and help the people stand together as a collective to
weather this economic storm. “In the midst of all these, we urge the President
to talk to Nigerians now.
He should address the people to reassure us of
government’s programs and actions with guarantees of meeting stated timelines.
This is not the time to talk through
proxies but directly to the people. ‘’He is the President the people elected
and should reconnect with them.
This present challenge is an opportunity
presented to him by providence to redefine his perhaps already waning
Presidency.
Great leaders are made in the
furnaces created by this kind of challenge. “We want to point out to the
President and the ruling elite that Nigerians elected them into office, perhaps
as an alternative to taking matters into their hands.
This is borne out of the belief that
we shall experience real departure from the rot and decadence of the previous
governments.
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