NISCN Urges Wike To End Motor Touting, Textbook Scams In Abuja

The National Industrial Safety Council of Nigeria (NISCN) has called connected the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to urgently code what it described arsenic “terrorism” by workers successful the proscription assemblage successful Abuja.

NISCN, established by the Federal Government successful 1964 and officially gazetted successful 1989, said it was disquieted by the increasing menace of centrifugal touts, peculiarly wrong the transport unions successful the FCT, who person continued to harass and endanger motorists connected Abuja roads.

According to the connection signed by NISCN President, Engr. John Obajinmi, notorious national members and municipal touts, particularly those od AMAC, person taken implicit the roles of instrumentality enforcement by extorting wealth from car owners nether the guise of selling “union tickets.”

“They person made it a transgression for car owners to park, carry, oregon driblet relatives oregon friends connected the road, thereby causing avoidable accidents crossed the city,” the connection read. “The bittersweet happening is that they ever perpetrate these crimes successful the beingness of constabulary officers who should beryllium protecting the masses.”

The assembly listed Wuse Market, Ilobu Petrol station, Bannex Bridge, Mabushi, Berger Bridge, Area 1, and Airport Road bridges arsenic notorious hotspots for specified activities.

Highlighting the tragic consequences of the menace, NISCN cited an incidental astatine Mabushi connected Tuesday, September 2, wherever a mates died successful a car clang aft touts forcefully reached into their backstage car and struggled for power of the steering wheel. The retaliation by residents, which resulted successful the decease of 2 of the touts, was described arsenic a unsafe awesome of nationalist frustration.

“This speaks volumes: radical are frustrated and are acceptable to instrumentality the instrumentality into their hands unless the FCT authorities intervenes rapidly to halt the looming anarchy,” the connection read

Beyond the transport sector, the assembly besides called connected the curate to tackle what it termed a “textbook scam” successful Abuja schools, accusing publishers and schoolhouse owners of compelling pupils to constitute assignments straight successful textbooks, making them unusable by younger siblings and forcing parents to bargain caller copies each world session.

“This enactment is not lone expanding dense burdens connected parents and workers, but it is besides worsening clime alteration done avoidable accumulation of caller books,” Obajinmi said. “The hardship caused by this menace is triggering affectional and intelligence accent for Nigerian workers, and it calls for urgent intervention.”

He urged Wike, arsenic the main information serviceman of the FCT, to travel the illustration of governors successful states specified arsenic Anambra and Ebonyi, who person banned the signifier of penning straight successful textbooks, describing it arsenic some wasteful and unsustainable.

“The FCT Minister is successful the presumption of a politician successful Abuja. He should instrumentality decisive enactment to easiness the people’s pains successful enactment with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Obajinmi added.