Posted on: 05:30 Mon, 02 May 2016



This is a summary of the grievances of
the Nigerian labour force as conveyed
to President mauhammadu Buhari on
May Day which is set aside to
celebrate workers.

Organised Labour at yesterday’s
May Day celebration, told President
Muhammadu Buhari that workers
and ordinary Nigerians were
beginning to lose faith in the
change mantra of the All
Progressives Congress, APC-led
Federal Government.

The President, however, assured
workers and Nigerians generally
that his government was
determined to tackle, headlong, all
socio-economic ills troubling the
nation. He said the government
would evolve solutions to emerging
threats to the well being of the
people and the realization of
sustainable development as well as
growth anchored on equity and
social justice.

But the Nigeria Labour Congress,
NLC, and the Trade Union Congress
of Nigeria, TUC, were unanimous in
condemning increasing poverty,
unemployment, insecurity, erratic
power supply, fuel scarcity, and
called on government at all levels
to urgently address the mounting
hardship and frustration in the
country according to the Vanguard.

Though both the Ayuba Wabba and
Joe Ajaero factions of the NLC held
their May Day rallies in Abuja and
Lagos respectively, they were
united on issues affecting workers
and other Nigerians, and called for
improved economy and well-being
of the people.

Addressing the gathering at Eagle
Square in Abuja, factional leader of
the NLC, Wabba, urged the
President to provide people-based
actions and programmes and not
elitist programmes. He said the
government should come up with
discernible strategies and
directions that would tell Nigerians
where his government was headed
economically.