NSITF: Our protest is against brutality of Labour members by Ngige -Wabba vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
According to him, “The protest has no relationship with the pronouncement they made. It is about the brutality Ngige meted out on our people. That is why we are protesting. The fundamental rights of every cirizen to peacefully assemble and protest cannot be wished away, it cannot be breached, it is a right that is fundamental, that is the essence of the action.And certainly, the message is rather coming very late.
On why the NLC nominated Chief Kokori, he said, “No, we never nominated Kokori. Let me tell you, I have repeated this severally our two nominees are the Treasurer and the Trustee. Kokori was nominated on his personal merit to the Presidential Committee headed by the Vice President then that nominated people into over 500 boards.
” We have said it several times that we were not even aware that he was appointed but having appointed him, they can’t treat him shabbily because he is from labour.” “Esteemed Comrades, in my opinion, the position of NLC on this matter is flippant. This is because the appointment for which Labour is being called out was not made based on any professional considerations but on political grounds as Kokori who is an APC, member was nominated by the state chapter of APC in his home state of Delta.
“I have been able to see a link between the above and the current horn locking between labour and the honourable minister. See it. An appointment is made, something else happens and there is a massive outcry from an important stakeholder like labour. Then the minister calls out thugs to kill and maim workers with a threat that nothing can stop him from going ahead with the inauguration of the board as constituted by himself.
“Now, in my opinion, we should draw the attention of NLC to the honest and present concerns of labour such as what the government and PENCOM on one hand and the PFAs on the other are doing with workers’ life savings. They should push for a thorough investigation of the management of those funds because they are the only savings honest Nigerian workers have.
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