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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has called on Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, to stop the blame game over his failure of managing the industrial crisis in the state.
Tribune Online reports that NLC in the state embarked on a strike and protest that was greeted by attacks in the state.
According to a statement signed by its President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, on Tuesday, NLC expressed disappointment in El-Rufai’s thinking that Nigerian workers would need financial leverage from a state governor or any other person in order to carry out its campaigns or activities.
Wabba said this in reaction to a viral video where Governor El-Rufai alleged that the recent protest by the NLC in Kaduna was sponsored by the Kano State government.
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“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes” Tony Blair.
Kaduna State is undoubtedly the third(3rd) most populous state, after Lagos and Kano States, with a population of about ten(10) million people, serviced by about one hundred and twenty thousand (120,000) public servants, which translates to less than 1.2 % of the total population. Before 2016, the annual budget estimates of the state was consistently in favour of recurrent expenditure. For instance, Ramallan Yero’s Budget of Consolidation and Continuity’, his last before his resounding defeat in the 2015 elections , which El-Rufai inherited, had N72.8 billion for Recurrent expenditure, about 35.72% of the budget and N130.9billion for Capital expenditure, representing about 64.28% of the budget. The twin problems, is not only in the budget allocations, but in the actual releases as year in and year out, Recurrent expenditure continued to outperform Capital expenditure.