Nigeria Labour Congress has warned the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesome Wike against demolishing houses built through self-efforts but regularise documents of homes in communities where people live.
The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, gave this admonition in Abuja.
He cautioned the FCT Minister to stop deriving pleasure from demolishing people’s houses, adding that Nigeria is the only country that cannot provide houses for its citizens but demolish ones built through self-effort.
He said, “I honestly think they should legalize those areas where workers are operating rather than demolishing them,” he said.
“All those places they call slums, where people made provision for themselves about where to stay, Wike is seen as illegal, he should add value by legalizing them even if temporarily for those people until such a time when the government is able to provide an alternative for them.”
The NLC President bemoaned that Nigerian workers cannot build houses with the paltry sum of N30,000 minimum wage before retirement from service after 35 years.
