National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations (NACOMYO) yesterday called for the establishment of special courts to prosecute alleged Nigerians.

NACOMYO’s national president, Alhaji Kamal’ddin Akintunde while speaking on Sunday said the establishment of such courts would serve as a way of decongesting the conventional courts.

He argued that the slow judicial process was being capitalized upon by financial and economic crime offenders to pervert the course of justice.

 It welcomed the four strategies proposed by President Buhari at fighting corruption, asking the National Assembly to facilitate processing the bills as soon as it is received.

According to him, the fee bargaining plea for treasury looters was an encouragement and rather not a punishment or it serves as a deterrent to others.

He appealed to various governments and other employers of labour owing workers’ salaries and entitlements and pension arrears to pay them as Ramadan commenced, just as the group urged employers of labour to create synergy that will aid production and development.

He called on the nation’s leaders to apply virtues of steadfastness, goodness, mercy, benevolence, kindness and charity significant of the glorious month in the act of governance in order to improve the lots of the citizens.

He explained that the appeals, coming against the backdrop of states and local governments owing backlog of workers’ salaries/entitlements and allowances of pensioners, noted that the unhealthy development has brought hardship and economic worries to many Nigerian families. The group noted that the phenomenon and recurring decimal undermines healthy living and good family life and has resulted into morbidity and mortality in many homes.

He admonished Nigerian governments to be conscientious and righteous, just as it told them that it was scriptural that “the sweat of labourers should not dry before they were accorded their dues and entitlements.”

He decried the opinions in some quarters asking President Buhari not to bail out the affected states as it was their responsibility.

 He argued that payment of salaries and people’s welfare should never be politicized; urging President Buhari to assist financially depressed and insolvent states. It noted that such rescue has become a compelling concern which will also check corruptive tendencies which his government promised to curb.

He noted the crucial role of the labour force in the road to our nascent democracy and especially workers’ participation in the political/electioneering process which successfully berthed a new dispensation; calling on governments to reciprocate and prioritize workers’ welfare and that such concern will boost nation’s economy and guarantees industrial harmony fundamental to economic growth.