NLC President Alyuba Wabba Calls On Government To ''Cut Off The Hands Of Guilty Looter'' To Serve As Deterrent

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has come up with a Sharia-like method of dealing with mindless looters who are deemed to have dipped their hands in the coffers of the country and you know what? It does sound sensible and may just be the right deterrent needed to help the country grow. When you hear the uncountable figures these looters swallow, its no wonder Comrade Ayuba Wabba has requested this drastic and quite unrealistic approach.

Addressing a rally organised at the governance at Unity Fountain in Abuja, he laments that it is alarming and very shameful that people would look at the poverty in Nigeria and still loot this calculator-breaking figures. 

He said: “We must not allow a situation where few, because of their interest will hold the system to ransom. We are demanding increase in electricity supply and they are saying pay more tariff. We are demanding increase in minimum wage and they say they are going to be paying in percentage. We should not be tired.

“Why should somebody steal one billion naira and walk the street free. We are demanding that they should be named and shamed. We are also demanding that one of their hands be cut off so that when we see them, we will know that they are people that has stolen our money.

“So, let us not be tired. Not to pay salaries  and pensions is criminal. Not to increase our wages in this condition is corruption  and so, we must demand good governance and support the fight against corruption.”

“It is obvious that what we are doing today is in our collect interest. As working class and our families and as Nigerians, we must always make our voice know and heard very clearly.

“Today, with what is happening in our system, we are actually at the receiving end because there is near absence of good governance and corruption is also fighting back very badly and we have been at the receiving end. Instead of addressing those challenges and paying salaries, what the are doing in some states is paying salaries in percentages.

“The height of this challenge is the absence of good governance, accountability, transparency and the rule of law, any system that does not have those ingredients, the first group that will suffer is the working class and their families and the citizens.