One of the great tragedies of Nigeria’s political history is that, when they become the nation’s President, former military dictators pretend to be born again democrats while former democrats pretend to be courageous military dictators. PBAT threw an unprovoked vicious jab at the labour unions.
He said, “You are not the only voice of Nigerians.” This is like poking lions in the chests and declaring that their roars is not the only voice in the jungle. It is politically unwise to throw jabs at labour unions in an inflationary economy.
The last time a Nigerian government threw such an unprovoked jab at labour was in 1945 when the colonial government insisted that Nigerian labour was not the only voice in Nigeria in the midst of a raging WWII inflationary economy. Labour responded with a national general strike of 1945. We will examine the 1945 national general strike in order to learn what labour must do now.
On May 19,…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
