The Coalition of Katsina Groups for National Unity and Integration has appealed to state governments and lawmakers across the country to concentrate on providing social and human infrastructure instead of capital development.
The admonition was made at a one-day engagement with youth, students, women and faith-based organisations in the state, where they condemned the proposed plan protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
In a joint communique signed by the coordinator of the group, comrade Hamza Umar Saulawa, the secretary, Bishir Dauda Sabuwar Unguwa and the director, contact and mobilisation, Rilwanu Mukhtar, the group stated that engaging stakeholders, including meeting with state governors, is the best way to tame the rising cost of living and spate of insecurity, not protest.
Describing the nationwide protest as needless, it advised the labour union to shelve its planned protests and continue to engage the government using dialogue until their demands are met.
According to the communique, “This coalition is further calling on government at sub-national levels to augment the efforts of the federal government by rolling out different measures to cushion the hardship among the masses. There are three tiers of government, and each of them should work assiduously like the federal government until the situation becomes better
“All political office holders, including federal and state lawmakers should come up with intervention in their own wards or constituency towards alleviating the suffering of their people. Furthermore, the private sector and the philanthropists should also follow suit.”
