The Nigeria Labour Congress has called for a renewed commitment in the war against terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, and other vices in Nigeria just as he criticised governors for refusing to pay the new minimum wage.

The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, stated this at the National Executive Council meeting in Abuja.

Mr. Wabba stated that the worsening insecurity in the country was worrisome.

He explained that the union could not fold its hands and watch Nigerians engage in ethno-religious squabbles.

“When the security situation in the country started getting out of hands, we called for a ‘rejig’ of the leadership of our national security apparatus. Now that we finally have new sets of service chiefs in play, we demand that the lapses of the old be identified and corrected.

“We call for a new verve of zeal and commitment in the war against terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, communal unrests, and clashes. We must never get to that point where we surrender the initiative and paraphernalia of sovereignty to autonomous state actors and forces of state capture,” said Mr. Wabba.

The NLC president also noted that some states had yet to implement the National Minimum Wage of N30,000, signed into law on April 18, 2019.

“Unfortunately, the worst violators of the national minimum wage law are employers in the public sector, especially state governors. We should consider the use of the court of law to assert the sovereignty of our laws and compliance to same.

“We are also mindful of national minimum pension for our pensioners. Section 173 of Nigeria’s Constitution demands review of minimum pension every four years. This must be dutifully complied with.

“By this time, it is expected that all the states in Nigeria should have concluded negotiations on the consequential increase in salaries owing to the new national minimum wage,” he said.