I’m not sure whether to congratulate NIGERIANS over NLC and TUC’s indefinite STRIKE action, which began this morning, or to bemoan the uncertainty of how all of this brouhaha would end, with this Joe Ajaero ‘one-leg-in one-leg-out’ leadership. He’s as unstable as the fart of a day old baby.
The STRIKE is about the minimum wage and electricity tarrif hike. There is NOTHING Organized Labor cannot achieve against any government, IF ONLY they would go the whole length. And, that’s where the problem lies with Ajaero and his ragtag team: they are unpredictable (predictable, actually; they are no long distance runners), unreliable, myopic and self-serving. Rather than fight over symptoms, they should go all out against the REAL CAUSES: bad governance, useless National Assembly and anthem, corruption, and lack of accountability at all levels, etc. Those are the stakes to fight for! But, like many NIGERIANS, Ajaero and his boys are not above board too.
In response to my write-up recently, a friend wrote, “Look Dele, Nigerians are greedy humans. Anywhere and everywhere they find themselves. It takes a circumcised heart not to be in that web. Look everywhere, from the highly positioned to the lowly, it’s a cult of money-making for ‘myself and mine.’ And I think it’s all from the culture that the society had promoted. If you don’t have money, you are regarded as less than human. Specifically about the banks, it’s crazy. Go and check their annual report and see the kind of profits they declare on yearly basis. It’s no longer about whether they make profits, it’s about how they’ll make more than the previous year. CBN regulates nothing. It’s a conspiracy against the masses.”
Na GOD Hand we dey so ooooo! So help us GOD!
Good day!
Good STRIKE!
DA