NLC declares nationwide protest December 17 over insecurity, school abductions

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared a nationwide protest for December 17 over the “degenerating security situation” across the country.

In a notice issued to all state councils on December 10, after its national executive committee (NEC)-in-session meeting on December 4, the labour group condemned the rampant activities of bandits and kidnappers across the country.

The group singled out the November 17 abduction of female students from a boarding school in Kebbi state.The NLC expressed outrage over the withdrawal of security personnel from the school shortly before the incident, describing it as a “dastardly and criminal” act that demands immediate investigation and prosecution.

The group directed all its affiliates and state councils to “fully mobilise” workers and civil society for the protest.

“The surge in kidnappings targeting schoolchildren has reached an alarming and unacceptable level,” the communiqué reads. Thecable