Comrade Ayuba Wabba, president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to come clean on the Treasury Single Account (TSA) allegation by probing into the alleged collection of N25 billion by the contracted agent.
Speaking in Abuja at a public lecture on “Good Goverce with Special Focus on the National Assembly”, Ayuba Wabba urged the Federal government to come and tell Nigerians the truth about the TSA.
He said,: "if what the papers stated is true that the Federal government contracted the agent which serves as the remitter agent to collect money into the treasury single account have benefited to the tune of N25 billion, money that would have used to fix some of our challenges, then I don't think we are practicing what we are preaching and I am not sure we are really trying to bring a positive change in Nigeria because the change we want is one that will put food on our table not money in the pocket of few."
The NLC President further stated there is no justification for the Federal government to actually use an agent for the purposes of collecting our revenue because there is no federal government agency that will fail to remit its revenue to the Federal government. Adding that we don't need an agency to do that work.
Wabba also spoke on new ministers, saying, "a lot of things have not moved by the speed we were expecting, especially when you look at the economy and our key infrastructures. Even in construction, most of those activities have come to a stop. So invariably, as Nigerians we are expecting that economic activities will be able to kick off immediately. And also we needed the policies and programmes to start to be implemented as soon as possible because four years is just by the corner and so therefore every day must count in whatever government business.
"And therefore, we are expectant that they should be able to drive effectively the policies and programmes that they have canvassed for especially in the area of job creation."