BY VICTOR      AHIUMA-YOUNG
LAGOS — ORGANISED Labour, weekend, warned that Nigeria faced the risk of sliding into barbarism and revulsion of uncontrollable proportion, if governments at all level refused to put in place a comprehensive social security welfare package for indigent citizens.

It argued that the crisis by militants in the Niger Delta and the terror of Boko Haram in parts of the North could be a child’s play if the unemployed, the unemployables, physically challenged as well as the injured at work were not taken care of.

General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, Mr  Issa Aremu, at Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, interactive session with industrial unions on the implementation of Employees’ Compensation Act, ECA, noted that Nigeria could not achieve its Vision 20-2020 with the current poor living standard of the citizens.

Aremu, also a Vice President of NLC, said: “Nigeria faces the risk of sliding into barbarism and revulsion of uncontrollable proportion, if governments at all levels refused to put in place a comprehensive social security for the vulnerable, which  must include the unemployed, the unemployables, physically challenged as well as the injured at work.”

Nigeria cannot be part of the race for the top 20 economies by year 2020 with current free fall of its citizens into the blind alley of income poverty, mass unemployment and general economic insecurity,” he said.