ITUC Presidency: NLC to mobilise against corrupt Nigerian politicians hiding in member states

AS Comrade Ayuba Wabba emerged the President of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), in Denmark; the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has resolved to mobilise labour movement in the 163 member states to frustrate Nigerian political elite who embezzle the country’s resources and run to their countries.

Besides, the NLC said it would use the opportunity to campaign and move against members of Nigerian political class who failed to fix the health sector; but run to other countries to access quality healthcare services by mobilising their colleagues around the world.

The President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba emerged the President of the ITUC, in Copenhagen, Denmark, last week; he is the first African to be elected to that position.

ITUC is the largest trade union federation in the world, as it represents 207 million workers across the globe with 331 Labour centres in 163 countries.

Comrade Wabba, gave the position of the Congress when the officials of the Medical and Health Workers Union, led by its President, Comrade Josiah Biobelemoye, received him at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja while returning from Denmark, yesterday.

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The NLC President said: “Initially we are struggling alone, but now we have over 163 countries that we can give instructions to and they will extend solidarity to Nigerian workers.

“It is also high time our politicians, looters and elites realised that once they loot our resources, we are going to liaise with the airport workers, once they are leaving the country to the next destination, they should be sure that we will mobilise people to turn them back.

“They must stay here and fix our economy and make Nigeria work. Therefore, having 207 million workers under the banner of the ITUC and giving us the mandate to provide leadership for them, it means that it will be well for all Nigerian workers and those issues that have made us slaves in our own country must continue to receive appropriate attention.”

Wabba insisted that the political elite should either fix the health sector or face more trouble in the years ahead, adding, “when they go outside this country without fixing our healthcare and they want to go and access quality healthcare, we will tell our counterparts out there also. If they go with headache, they will come back with hypertension because that is not what we expect.”