As part of efforts to resist plans by the Federal Government to sell some of the nation’s critical assets to bail out the economy from the current recession, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has disclosed that 20 lawyers have expressed willingness to defend the interest of the Nigerian masses in court.
NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, who disclosed this in Abuja, yesterday while inaugurating a 10-man Think Tank to develop a position paper on the economic recession, lamented that all national assets were under threat, saying there was the need to protect them.
Wabba said that the lawyers had told the Congress that there was a legal angle to the proposed sale of the national assets which they were willing to take up against the Federal Government.
He said the Congress would use a three- prong approach to address the planned sale of assets by the Federal Government, noting that the position paper to be developed by the Think Tank would be used as a basis for engaging government on the matter.
The three-prong approach, he said, would include engaging the government, mobilising Nigerians to the street and also exploring legal option if the first two approaches failed.
According to him, the Think Tank would look at the social and economic issues facing the country with the view to coming up with an alternative policy, noting that what the country was passing through was what brought about Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) in 1984.


He said “We have been turning round the same issues, SAP, Vision 2020. They are all the same neo-liberal policies of government. Regimes change but our problems remain the same. Today, our country is sold and another sale is being proposed. We will try and address these issues. NLC is on the side of Nigerian people and Nigerians should support the NLC.
“The Congress has issued a statement about our take on the matter and some of our affiliates and progressives have also moved against it. While it is important to bail out the country from the recession, sale of assets is not the best move. Nigerians must move against it.
“This is no doubt a capitalist Neo-liberal idea. It is another version of SAP. The notion that government has no business doing business has been proved wrong. Ethiopia is a good example with their airline, railway and even power that they already planning to be exporting”.
The NLC President, who noted that the problem with the country was manmade, advised the Federal Government to explore what he called tax justice where the high and mighty who had been evading taxes and those getting tax waiver were made to pay taxes.
“Tax is one area that government should look into . We are still canvassing that issues raised in the Panama Leak should be investigated. Government should also take stock of all enterprises that have been privatized.
“We are opposed to the sale of our assets in whatever guise. The consequences will be more grievous if we don’t protect our assets. It will serve no good if those assets are sold. This is our position.”


https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/188371/nlc-assembles-20-lawyers-battle-proposed-sale-national-assets

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