Nigeria Labour Congress President Publicly Fights With Civil Servants, Promises To Sack Them

The President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba has reportedly gotten into a scuffle with the chairman of NLC/TUC Good Homes Scheme, Chief Emeka Anuna.

According to The Sun, Wabba threatened to sack the wife of Anuna from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), now known as International Trade Union Congress (ITUC).

Anuna and some workers had protested in front of the NLC headquarters in Abuja over their N1 billion investment in a housing scheme at Apo Mechanic Village in Abuja.

The chairman of NLC/TUC Good Homes told the aforementioned publication that some of the civil servants borrowed from the banks and co-operative societies in their various houses to pay for the houses.

He claimed that 10 years after their investment they neither got the houses nor their money back adding they were earlier promised that they would get the keys to their houses six months after a 10 per cent payment.

He said “We were meant to key into a housing scheme at Apo Tafia (mechanic village) which is powered by the federal government and given to NLC and TUC. Most of our members have met all the financial requirements. The delivery period was for six months. This is 10 years and nothing has happened.

“Some people paid the full financial implications. Some paid N46 million. Some N12 million, and some paid N12.4 million for a three-bedroom house. Some paid 10 per cent of the total sum. The agreement was that if you pay 10 per cent, in six months you’ll get your keys. It was a virgin land and all interested civil servants bought into it.”

The workers had earlier protested at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister’s house between 8 am and 9 am before going to the NLC’s headquarters between 10 am and 11 am.

After staging their protest, the NLC president ran after them, held the workers’ chairman by the jugular and hotly engaged him in a fight.

He subsequently ordered his security men to seize the chairman and detain him. However other workers with Anuna stopped the security men from carrying out the order.

During the scuffle between Ayuba And Wabba thugs on the sides smashed the phones and cameras of journalists used in recording the event.