Hardship in the land: Labour besiege Aso Villa

Government activities in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was practically crippled Thursday, as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) led angry Nigerians to besiege the Presidential Villa in protest against the lingering hardship occasioned by faulty economic policies of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

Led by the president of the NLC, Comrade Aliyu Waba and his TUC counterpart, Comrade Bobboi Kaigama, the angry protesters carried placards with different inscriptions to decry their frustration with the current economic situation in the country.

This is even as the National Vice President of NLC, Amaechi Asugwuni, also led another group of protesters in Lagos to walk from the National Secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Yaba, to the State Government House in Alausa, Ikeja, and also the State House of Assembly, to make their demands known in the protest they tagged ‘National day of action against corruption and for good governance.’

Addressing the protesting crowd before walking to the Aso villa, president of the NLC, Comrade Waba, said that the reason for the increase of hardship in Nigeria, was due to the unabated corruption cases in Nigeria, stating that common Nigerians are at the receiving end……

Daily Times Newspaper, Friday, February 10, 2017

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