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On February 8, 2017 I tweeted about joining the NLC on their walk for good governance. I was really not too surprised at the kinds of responses I got from fellow frustrated Nigerians: My people just dey query me as per how somebody like me go come gum body with NLC "Fake" people like that.
For
starters, let me make this clear; If the devil like make him hold
rally, I go appear to use that platform to send my message to my fellow
frustrated Naijas. Until I posted a tweet about marching with NLC in
Lagos, I didn't realize how most nigerians had lost respect/trust for
the union. In fact one of the feedbacks I received blaming the
compromised NLC for the death of a family member really evoked some
strange feelings in me.
The
Late Dr. Oghenetega Umukoro battled diabetes for 20 years. His
condition, however, became particularly difficult in 2014 because he was
an employee of a state in this country owing workers 6 months Salary.
He had been solely dependent on various degrees of loans to not just
manage the sickness but also manage his family -A Beautiful family of
three boys and a girl. He lost his wife Elizabeth in 2011 due to
childbirth complications. His miserable life of Sickness; Struggling to
pay Tuition fees for his children's education, poor feeding and
debilitating cost of general upkeep for the family, led to further
complications medically and he died a few months ago. His Corpse has
been in the Mortuary for well over 4 months now, his children are all
alone and have no idea what the future holds. The brief story of late
Dr. Oghenetega Umukoro of Blessed Memory is the story of the Nigerian
Public and Private Sector Worker and Workforce.
It's
on record that President Buhari first gave a N350billion Salary
Stimulus pack for 27 State Government. The first in the History of this
Country and was continually giving further bailouts and Support to every
state of the Federation totalling over four bailouts and budget
support. Recently every State of the Federation got on the Average of
between N10bbillion-14.5Billion from the Paris Club Debt Refunds and it
is on record that President Muhammadu Buhari Impressed it on State
Governors to do the Right thing because he is constitutionally handicap
to enforce Financial Fiscal Discipline at the State Level. If the
President can understand the Suffering of the people in the Ghetto and
as a result of his desire to cushion the suffering of the workers
provide Bailouts totally about N3 Trillion Since 2015 under two years
what has Organized Labour down to support the President? I No See
Anything oh! And sadly, most Governors squandered the Bailout and did
not pay the workers that the funds were meant for while Labour Siddon
dey Look like mumu.
NLC/TUC
and organised Labour Leaders have been silent, complacent and I believe
mago magoly benefitted from those bailout that was dedicated to the
suffering ordinary civil servants. They did not and could not mobilize
to fight the roguish governors and for the workers because the suffering
of the labour force had become abstract to the leadership of Labour.
Organized Labour has become an enemy of the Nigerian people.
From
the National Health Insurance Scheme; To various Housing Scheme of
Government; To Programmes for the reduction in Pregnancy and Childbirth
related Deaths, The Leadership of Organized Labour in Nigeria has been
ineffective and compromised in the Battles for Workers' Rights. They are
Insensitive and have play no noticeable and viable role in the
monitoring and investigation of the Frauds of Government and Governance
on behalf of the Nigerian People in the National Assembly; The
Judiciary; Failing MDAs; State and Local Governments. NLC and TUC were
in this country and practically endorsed the last decade of Audacious
mismanagement and Mindless Insane Looting of our Treasury; I Just Dey
Vex!. They were silent, incoherent, indiscipline, selfish, greedy and
destructive, to say the least. NLC and TUC have been at the forefront of
the Corruption of the Nigerian Workforce and the destruction of the
moral values of the Nigerian Workforce. The leadership of organized
labour have come to symbolize what has been wrong with our collective
being in this country. Oh! how I wish the Labour Leadership of old can
be resurrected.
I
was the one who use to mobilised lagos state in those days for NLC
under the leadership of the character called Adams Oshiomole. That one
had a habit of calling off strikes, doing different James Bond on
Naijas. I backed out when I discovered him way no be my way.
What
I got from people's negative responses to this rally is that the NLC
and TUC are alone in their battle against the President. And this is
purportedly so because the NLC were silent when Nigerians were buying
PMS at over N200/litre when it was officially N86.50/Litre; they are
silent as the cost of living sky rockets every blessed day, they are
silent when workers are not paid salaries for months in different
states, and are not as engaging when the suffering people needs them the
most. State governors owe workers up to 12months salary. I swear, Na
God go punish all the bad people amongst us after the masses deal with
them very soon.
The
NLC and TUC Leadership have continually Ignored the Criminality and
Looting by the National Assembly over the Past Decade. The Hypocrisy of
Organized Labour Leadership is blatantly open for all Nigerians to see.
They have been fighting the wrong battles under the guise of fighting
for the people, forgetting that a battle for the people must be owned by
the people. I may have marched with them, but their ways are not my
ways. I dey hope say dem go change and begin answer their true calling
or else, fellow frustrated Nigerians will occupy their headquarters
until sanity is restored again.
#OurMumuDonDo !!!
Areafada Charlyboy
President.
Frustrated Nigerians
Tweeter/instagram @areafada1
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