The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and civil society on Wednesday in a joint conference advocated capital punishment for corrupt officials as obtained in China and India.

To drum support for the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari, they said the organised labour would hold a mass rally on Thursday in Abuja.     

Mr. Wabba said the NLC was in support of whatever would address the issue of corruption in the country, including death sentence.

“If such capital punishment can happen in China, India and South Africa, it can also happen in Nigeria; whatever measure that will address the issue of this mind-boggling corruption in the country, NLC will support it,” he said.

“As organised labour, we firmly believe that the political leadership of our country must act decisively to get us out of the brink of disaster that greed and primitive accumulation [of wealth] through open looting of our commonwealth in the last six and more years, has brought us to,” said the unionist.

Also speaking, Mr. Kaigama of the TUC decried the level of looting at the state and local government levels across the country.

“We have not experienced non-payment of salary for eight months in the last 20years; this is sad and this is due to the massive corruption in the country,” said the TUC president.


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