The Chairman of National Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, has touted the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El’rufai, to go ahead and arrest him.
Recall the governor declared him wanted for calling on strike in the state, which has called for his blow back.
Wabba was engaged in an interview at NEPA roundabout while leading thousands of workers to strike.
He said: “Let him come and arrest me. We are here and waiting for them, the strike was not about me.”
Addressing members of the unions at the NLC secretariat, Wabba enthused that the organised labour would not back down until the demands are acceded to by the governor.
He said: “The decision has been communicated to all security agencies of the government. It is the beginning of the struggle of labour and we hope our politicians will cooperate with us to ensure we protect our democracy by delivering its dividends to the citizens including workers.”
“Organised labour is in Kaduna to tell the world the truth of what the workers, pensioners, students and other citizens in the state are going through besides the lies being peddled by media platforms on El-Rufai’s payroll.
“The situation of the workers in the state is so pathetic that thousands of them have been laid off from their sources of livelihood without the state government making any effort to pay them their entitlements.
“Worst still, El-Rufai has gone further to increase school fees in public state school thereby making the children of those sacked from their working place without payment to become dropouts.
“It is only Kaduna State out of the other states in the country that throws workers out of their jobs without any regards for the labour law and that is why we are here.”
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