President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Mr. Ayuba Wabba has said that the labour group is fully in support of the President’s anti-corruption probe.
Wabba said this at the National Delegates’ Conference of the National Union of Roads Transport Workers in Abuja.
He said “We are therefore saddened by the news making the rounds that the peace committee recently visited President Buhari to persuade him against bringing to book those involved in the scandalous theft, which we now understand runs into several trillions of naira.
“We call on the eminent members of this committee not to diminish their standing in the eyes of the Nigerian public by trying to stand in the way or better still, act as an obstacle to the retrieval of our commonwealth by these erstwhile public officers, who have plainly betrayed the trust of the Nigerian people.”
Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole who was also at the event revealed that the Nigerian Ports Authority only remitted N2bn out of a total sum of N162bn it generated in a year.
He said, “So, I want to propose to the President of the NLC that you should advise the members of the National Peace Committee to include justice, national justice at the peace committee because peace is a product of justice.
“So, for us to have peace, there must be justice otherwise we are going to have the peace of the graveyard and there can be no justice if one person can pocket $6bn.
“Last week, someone told us and this was an official report that in one federal parastatal, the NPA, they admitted to collecting N162bn in one year. They spent N160bn out of that and remitted N2bn to the Federal Government. Is that justice? Can someone plead in defence of this kind of abuse?”