The United Labour Congress (ULC) has expressed worries over the government failure to remove or sack outright some erring heads of security operatives over the security situation and killings in the North East and North Central Nigeria.
Rising from its Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting, the ULC lamented the refusal of the Federal Government to rejig the nation’s security and remove erring Heads in the face of complete failure to halt the killings.
According to the congress, the failure and apparent inaction has made the government more culpable.
The President of ULC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, pointed out that despite all promises made by the government to stem the tide of continued slaughtering of Nigerian citizens in the North East and North Central, the gory events have accelerated rather than reduce.
He lamented that the number of Nigerians who meet untimely and gruesome death in the hands of blood thirsty persons and groups keeps growing on daily basis and expanding in scope while government watches helplessly.
According to him: “It has become frightening to Nigerian workers and masses at the lack of premium which Nigerian politicians and leaders place on the lives of an average Nigerian.”
He added: “Our worry became alarming when we observed that the institutions that ought to take charge of this threat to our nation seem not to have any clue as to the dynamics of the killings.
“It is befuddling that for an unfortunate event that has been on for some years, the nation’s security apparatus cannot categorically tell Nigerians why and who is responsible for this act.
“We had thought that this would have been one of the measures that would have restored confidence and rebuild trust which will send the right signals of its intentions to resolve the security crisis.”
The labour leader emphasised that any Government or leadership that fails to protect the lives and properties of its citizenry is a failed government.
“We have to be alive to enjoy whatsoever other benefits or achievements the government may have claimed to have attained during its tenure”, he said.
He maintained that “the killings must stop! The flow of Blood must cease! The reign of Fear and terror must be removed!”
Ajaero added further, “we therefore call on Government to demonstrate that the lives of Nigerian workers and masses matter by arresting some of the self-confessed killers that still walk around our streets.”
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