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NLC vows to resist attempts to sell national assets to foreigners

- The Nigerian Labour Congress has vowed to resist attempts to sell any of the national assets to foreign collaborators

- NLC president, Ayuba Wahab also faulted claims that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation would be sold in the future

- According to Wahab, the incessant industrial crisis in some sectors is a strategy of some people in government to make the idea of privatization and sales of public assets appealing

Comrade Ayuba Wahab, the national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), declared that the body would resist attempts to sell any of the national assets to foreign collaborators.

Channel TV reports that Wahab made this known on Tuesday, February 5, during the 12th delegate conference of the congress in Abuja.

Wahab said: “NLC and the working-class movement have a well-documented position on privatisation. We have resisted any form of privatisation and any of our assets to be privatised to individuals and their foreign collaborators will be resisted.”

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The labour leader also condemned reported the move to sell the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Ayuba disclosed that incessant industrial crisis experienced both in the health and education sectors is a deliberate strategy of some people in government to make the idea of privatization and sales of public assets in Nigeria appealing.

Also speaking, the secretary to the government of the federation, Boss Mustapha, stated that the federal government is determined to see to the welfare of Nigerian workers.

Mustapha said: “Government is determined to attain the decent work agenda which involves the opportunity for works that are productive and deliver a fair income.

“May I also at this juncture assure the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress of government’s unalloyed support and cooperation towards the struggle for a better workers’ welfare which will invariably enhance the increased productivity and national growth.”

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that President Muhammadu Buhari congratulated Ayuba Wabba on his reelection as president of Nigeria Labour Congress.

Buhari in a statement issued by his senior special assistant on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, February 6, also congratulated other members of the National Executive Committee for their election and reelection.

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The president said he looked forward to working closely with Wabba, NLC Central Working Committee (CWC) and the National Executive Council of the Congress to fulfil the extraordinary promise of partnership between government and labour.

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