Labour, allies urge Nigerians to speak out on bad leadership

Comrade John Odah, immediate past General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), who spoke for the Abuja Collective at a memorial event convened to celebrate the lives and times of the late Baba Omojola and Professor Festus Iyayi, over the weekend, urged Nigerians to take their destinies into their hands.Odah said: “At a time […]

Comrade John Odah, immediate past General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), who spoke for the Abuja Collective at a memorial event convened to celebrate the lives and times of the late Baba Omojola and Professor Festus Iyayi, over the weekend, urged Nigerians to take their destinies into their hands.
Odah said: “At a time when our nation is going through some of its severest challenges and difficulties, since the civil war, as patriots, it is our belief that the task of rebuilding our nation is one that should not be left to only the political class.
“Nigerians from all works of life must speak out against the desperate and despicable habit of large sections of the political elite, trying to manipulate our religious and ethnic diversity for devious political agenda.”
Speakers at the memorial also condemned the present neglect of public education by successive governments at all levels arguing that it is impeding the development of the country in all sectors of the economy.  
Vice President of the NLC Comrade Issa Aremu said labour and its allies will organise mass protests over the pathetic state of public education in the country. In the keynote address titled “The Banishing of the Revolutionary Intellectuals,” Yunusa Zakari Ya’u, a veteran activists and former lecturer at the Bayero University, Kano, described the attitude of the political leadership of the country towards education as tragic.
“Our schools are bad because our education system is in crisis, which is the result of the lack of interest in education by government,” he said