NLC Laments Nation’s Woes, Calls For Honest Reflection

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has congratulated Nigerian workers, the Nigerian people on the occasion of the country’s 60th Independence Anniversary while drumming the need for honest reflection on the challenges the country is facing.
In a statement signed by the President of the NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, yesterday, NLC said that at 60 years, it is said that political leaders still send their children abroad when the education system is in shambles.
The union also blasted politicians who fly abroad for medical attention when the health system is in the country is failing.
The statement read in part: “The role of Organised Labour in defying the British imperial rule especially through the June 22, 1945 General Strike and Labour’s demand for the respect of the rights of Nigerian workers and people to decent work, just wages and actualization of self-government was a defining moment in Nigeria’s history. Organised Labour has continued to play the role of a vanguard pan Nigerian institution standing as a check to neo-liberal and anti-people policies of successive governments.
“Sixty years in the life of a working person is usually the age of retirement from active service. One of the major demands on retirement age is reflective introspection and honest appraisals of one’s life – the highs, the lows, the goals, the misses, the successes, and the failures.