Ex-TUC president gives condition to end insecurity

A former president of the Trade Union Congress, Mr Peter Esele, has warned the federal government that the pervading insecurity in the country would never end unless public universities are reopened.

Esele gave the warning in an interview with the newsmen today while commenting on the solidarity protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress in Benin

The NLC embarked on the protest on July 26 to show solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, which had been on strike for over five months.

He pointed out that from 1999 till date, the nation’s universities had been shut cumulatively for about six years.

The academic body had been at odds with the federal government over the years for the apparent inability of the government to meet the terms of its agreements with the union.

According to Esele, the NLC ought to have staged the protest a long time ago to show its displeasure