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It interests me that the dictionaries and even scientists could be so less than being totally correct.
Yeah, they are!
Listed amongst the endangered species in the world are the giant panda, tiger, whooping crane, blue whale, Asian elephant, sea otter, snow leopard, gorilla and so on!
They have left out one animal. And, it’s so painful.
That animal is the Nigerian worker!
As far as the governments are concerned, whether at federal, state or local level, the worker is just a necessary irritant. If they had their ways, they could do without them.
See how many months the Nigerian worker has been battling for the increment of their minimum wage. By the way, it is a right!
We were thinking it would have been pegged around a hundred thousand naira. It was a surprise therefore when most of the governors were saying they couldn’t even afford the thirty thousand naira minimum wage that was sent to them. They are busy proposing something like twenty two thousand five hundred naira or thereabouts.
The Nigerian workers are their own enemies. If they are not, I believe they shouldn’t be settling for half measures. Let the people in government find a way of resolving the absence or even shortage of basic facilities.
Could you believe that some Nigerian cities had been put in a permanent position of darkness because the electric supply situation is chaotic? Nearly every house supplies its own water requirements by digging boreholes. Public transportation in most cities is in a confused state just like most of the roads are not fit for even the obscurest villages.
When you talk of food, that’s another matter entirely. We produce far less than we consume in a nation that once boasted of groundnut pyramids, cocoa, rubber and much more in their excesses. The petrodollars was our nemesis. Once we started drinking oil, we forgot agriculture and here we are.
The workers must make issues out of these impossible conditions they are expected to work in. It’s after the resolution of those conditions that other things could follow.
Other things like the remuneration of elected representatives, making Nigeria a true federal state, minimum wage, and so on.
But then, many workers are satisfied with eating the crumbs from the rich tables of politicians. Many of them won’t see anything wrong with the status quo. They would rather manage the situation as it presents itself.
A people will always deserve its ruling class!!!
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