Democracy Day: FIWON Links Rising Insecurity, Kidnappings To Lack Of Social Protection

The Federation of Informal Workers Organizations of Nigeria (FIWON) has called on the Federal Government to treat social protection as a critical component of national security, warning that growing poverty, unemployment, and exclusion are fueling insecurity and kidnappings across the country.
In a Democracy Day statement signed by its General Secretary, Comrade Gbenga Komolafe, and delivered in Lokoja by the Kogi State Chairman of the organisation, Comrade Maryam Usman, during a road walk, FIWON expressed concern over the increasing wave of banditry and kidnappings, insisting that the crisis cannot be separated from the socio-economic hardships confronting millions of Nigerians.
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