•Says each daybreak unveils renewed hardship, harsh dwelling situations
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubukar, has slammed the federal authorities, accusing it of subsidising corruption in authorities.
Within the Might Day message, Atiku stated as Nigerian staff joined their counterparts internationally in the present day to have fun Worldwide Employees’ Day, it was a sobering fact that the plight of the Nigerian employee remained dire.
He stated, “Regardless of extended pledges and flowery phrases by the federal government, the a lot talked-about prospects of wage increment for the Nigerian employee stays a mirage. Each daybreak unveils renewed hardships and harsh dwelling situations.
“After the contraction and contradictions by the federal government about whether or not the subsidy regime has gone or it’s nonetheless being carried out, the nation is in the present day dealing with the angst of frustration by Nigerians who waste valuable man-hours in queues at petrol stations throughout the nation,” he acknowledged
In keeping with Atiku,, “The petrol subsidy is purportedly gone, but its influence lingers – revealing the ineptitude of the present federal authorities.
“In an unprecedented method and condescending of each the Nigerian employee and most people, this present federal authorities introduced a unilateral removing of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit with out consultations with representatives of the Nigerian employee.
“The continued improve in tariffs in numerous service choices with out addressing the corruption and inefficiencies within the system solely quantities to long-suffering Nigerians subsidising the corruption and inefficiencies within the system.
“For the reason that days of legendary, Pa. Michael Imoudu, to latter day fireplace manufacturers resembling Pascal Bafyau and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the Nigerian employee has been on the forefront of the struggle towards tyranny and dangerous governance.
“No administration in our historical past has trampled staff’ rights like this one. Each day, staff face uncertainty over skyrocketing costs of important items,” he stated.
Atiku stated the Nigerian employee has had it so tough beneath this present administration and it was unlucky that whereas the dwelling situations of the Nigerian employee remained at a miserably low ebb, the Nigerian authorities continued to regale its worldwide audiences with tales of how the lots had been being weaned of their wasteful dependence on authorities.
“It’s thus starting to seem, that so far as the present federal authorities is anxious, the administration of our nation’s micro-economic outlook is an unwieldy laboratory experiment, to which the Nigerian employee is laid prostrate.
“Whereas I can not however share my sympathy with the Nigerian employee for the way in which the present authorities has ridiculed her for a lot too lengthy, I need to equally specific my felicitations with the Nigerian employee on this 12 months’s Employees Day.
“It’s my hope that the theme of this 12 months’s Labour Day: ‘Making certain Security and Well being at Work in a Altering Local weather’, will encourage the Nigerian authorities to place the considerations of the Nigerian Employee on the entrance burner,” Atiku harassed.