The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, has said Kaduna State Government under the leadership of Governor Nasir El-Rufai has hired 50 truckloads of thugs to attack protesting workers in the state.

Wabba stated this on Wednesday while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme monitored by The PUNCH.

He alleged that the governor paid N500 each to some youths to disrupt the demonstration of the workers who protested the mass sacking of civil servants in the state on Tuesday.

The PUNCH had reported that thugs disrupted the demonstration of workers in the state on Tuesday. The state workers had on Monday begun a five-day strike over the governor’s retrenchment of about 60,000 workers and the alleged anti-labour policies of the government.

The NLC subsequently condemned the attack and threatened to embark on a nationwide strike.

Speaking on the television programme on Wednesday morning, Wabba said, “As I speak with you this morning, the security agencies are already there and they (Kaduna) have hired about 50 trucks of thugs to try to invade the NLC state office where our people are already converging. Is this democracy? Even under military (regime), labour leaders, labour laws have not been violated as it is today.

“The security agencies are already there, they are taking pictures, they are recording everything, all the vehicles, all the people.


“Yesterday (Tuesday), those people that were hired to carry placards, I have the records, they were paid N500 each. In fact, I have them on record, they are youths, most of them are below the age of 17. What kind of system are we running? The press needs to ask them what are they protesting for because our people that are affected, their stories can be heard. Basically, propaganda in this case must be exposed.”

That hell rufai is brainless ,such a tyrant
Up north na just waste of space

The whole thing in Kaduna has been hijacked and turned flex of power... El rufai should pls listen to the labour... Many Nigerian civil servants who were sacked without their gratuity died of hypertension..... FG really need to look into this pls... imagine, what happened to the gratuity of over 10,000 workers sacked since El rufai came to power...

Failed group

This is very shameful

Imagine El-Rufai as the president of this country, an ambition he been nursing since 2006, he would have been worse than Babangida and Abacha put together