NLC kicks against rationalisation of ministries

In from Olumide Olaoluwa …
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has kicked against the proposed rationalisation of ministries and parastatals.
It said it will never support any policy that will throw more Nigerians into the unemployment market.
In a communiqué at the end of its National Executive Council meeting in Abuja, the congress said it was unfortunate that the current government was under pressure to implement the Oronsanye’s Report on the merger of ministries, parastatals and agencies of government.
The communiqué signed by the President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba and General Secretary, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, said: “Our position is that against the backdrop of the unemployment in the land, we cannot support any measure or policy whose purpose is to send more Nigerians into the unemployment market.
“The NEC therefore mandated the leadership of Congress to engage the new federal government on ways in which the ministries, parastatals and agencies can be managed more efficiently and productively as well as cut wastages which constitute one of the endemic problems of our public sector.”

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The Congress commended the efforts of the government to “do a comprehensive audit of how our earnings have been managed, in the first instance, in the last five or so years.
“This review, NEC hopes, will get to the root of billions of dollars that operators of government at the federal level have stolen from the Nigerian people, which should be recovered and put back into the common pool.”
The Labour Movement also resolved to support the prompt prosecution of all those who participated in the massive looting spree of the national treasury to serve as a lesson that abuse of public trust comes with corresponding penalties.

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