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The institutional and regulatory body or union covering workers’ rights, protection of the vulnerable workers, enforcement of minimum wages, and the provision of decent working conditions are weak.
The large informal sector affects the efficacy of the labor market institutions and regulatory framework. The beneficiaries of this ineffectiveness are usually the employers, while workers are usually victims.
President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration seems to take advantage of this weaker union body which has only been limited to mere press statements, unlike in those days when the coalition of civil society, Trade Union,Nigerian Labour Congress NLC enjoyed synergy of staging protests against obnoxious policies of any government in power, to force government policies towards the required standards that will be of the interest of all .
Today Buhari government has increased eventually prices of every goods and services, yet no single resistance from the supposed regulatory body, just as the Federal government increased electricity tariff the most criticized policy was followed by fuel pump price, this is coming while Nigerians are battling with three square meals per day, indeed the government has lost human sympathy and its evil to keep quite at this time, this moves is directly encouraging Omoyole Sowore called and agitation for ‘Revolution Now’ movements.
President Buhari is not just suffocating the entire nation, but suppressing us at all cost with the aide of security operatives who are on stand by to take anybody into custody would say “pim”, this can’t never be the democracy our fore fathers fought for, the government has developed attitude of increasing prices of goods, services while the unemployment rate is on the increase,as Naira is losing its value daily with almost $1 equals to N500 in Nigeria, and so many states refusing to pay N18,000 minimum wage as approved.
The leaderships of NLC is in comatose, Nigeria Government handlers and managers don’t even see need for any talks with them before embarking on an unfriendly polices.
Nigerians from all walks of life are condemning this latest action of Buhari Increasing Pump price, electricity tariff, from all angle DSTV is not left out, we thank God for only one agency alive and that is Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission FCCPC, the apex consumer protection agency in Nigeria, which is the only regulatory body seems to be alive and has announced to engage DSTV over the increase in the tariff.
The country will not in anyway be better if Security Operatives abandoned its core responsibilities and took over the job of suppressing the contrary opinion
Usman Okai Austin
Writes from Abuja
