Latest News | News Break Nigeria Vice President of the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) and a delegate to the ongoing National Conference, Comrade Issa Aremu, has said unhealthy competition among delegates would truncate the aim of setting up the conference. He said the national delegates have the responsibility to consolidate on the gains so far and avoid the pitfall of failure arising from unnecessary hardened positions on revenue distribution formula. Aremu stated this in a press release issued in Kaduna on Sunday, saying that the current impasse on revenue sharing formulae is avoidable if patriotism replaces parochialism and unhealthy competition gives way to national solidarity and cooperation for development. He advised that: “Delegates must think outside the box of divisive sharing formula to all inclusive revenue growing/production formulae. The truth of the matter is that we must grow this economy before it can be shared. Oil and gas that constitute the base of the derivation principle is weak, due to oil theft and relatively low exploration.” According to him: “The challenge for delegates including myself lies in not just sharing what is not enough but in growing what will be enough to build prosperity for our people. We must compliment distributive approach with production component to fiscal federalism.” Aremu noted that the 2014 Conference has made a lot of progress through compromises, as 19 committee reports on diverse issues as Industry, trade and investment, labour, religion, energy, political restructuring and Foreign policy among others had passed without rancor. He said the only remaining committee outstanding is the one dealing with devolution of powers. Even at that over 90 per cent of the amendments of the report had passed. He therefore encouraged the conference to find ways out of the avoidable stalemate.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:04:09 +0000
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