WORKERS STRIKE: NLC DESERVES PROSECUTION By Evans Tubonah

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This Country is called Nigeria, the largest African nation in the world, with a population figure of over 140 million people out of which Civil Service work force is less than 10 percent.
It is absolutely disheartening that,Nigeria Labour Congress which is just a Civil Service workers Union like every other union, every other Organization or Association in this country,  has been arrogating to herself powers as another governmental authority in the country with impunity to call workers to conspiracy, to make illegal announcements through the media that Government Workers across the nation: Federal, States and Local Government Councils should go on strike to enforce their demand for a salary increase.
 A demand for a pay rise in the Civil Service or any other set of employees, in companies and other sectors has nothing to do with the majority of Nigerians, who aught not to had been in any way dragged into a private matter between the NLC and their employer, the Federal Government of Nigeria

Besides the Civil Service, the Federal Government has a lot of engagements with other Nigerians; talk about the Contractors embarking on meaningful projects that are targeted to be completed on a scheduled date, students  pursuing their education in schools preparing for their examinations that are also fixed to time and dates.
What about the hospitals and other medical establishments providing healthcare services?
What about the Aviation sector, Maritime sector, the petroleum sector etc.? These and many more are the responsibilities of the Federal Government to the masses of the Nigerian nation of which the private sector is considered by every rational government as very important to national development; but the NLC which has no Constitutional Right to infringe on the economic and every other Rights over fellow Nigerian citizens, and or foreigners, brazenly went ahead and declared a strike that crumbled the economy and subjected the poor masses to unimaginable hardship and suffering.
The selfish and unpatriotic NLC aught to know that her unwarranted declaration of national strike  caused irreparable financial losses to all tiers of government and the private sector in particular   running into billions of Naira as damages. This is unacceptable. The NLC must be made to understand that the salary increment war that her insignificantly meager workforce that with less than 10% members of the Nigerian population are waging against the Federal Government has nothing to do with the rest of

Gani Fawahinmi [SAN]

Nigerians who are not in the pay vouchers of government as Civil Servants.
What the NLC should have done Constitutionally was to drag the Federal Government to Industrial Courts for arbitration and for a lasting solution than to embark on such a crude, uncivilized, and brutal attack against the entire nation while pursuing their personal matter with their employer.
The take on this issue, is that, the Federal Government should understand that the billions the NLC is wrestling or fighting
to receive will not go into the pockets of the none Civil Servants, even a kobo. The question is,  how will they compensate for the losses they have caused to the rest of the nation for their dastardly act?
This is a fundamental matter desiring legal consideration that the well being of the ordinary masses is being trampled upon with impunity by a workers union called NLC, without anyone saying anything. If our legal luminary of blessed memory, Nationalist and the masses Rights Activist, Chief Gani Fawahinmi [SAN] were here this impunity could have been put to check.
The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Labour Congress [NLC],  need to be prosecuted for causing such a colossal waste of time and money estimated to a whooping amount of  billions of Naira, to the detriment of the struggling and unemployed  masses of this country and foreigners alike and for

PHOTO OF HOW NLC  SHUT DOWN THE NATION

giving such an embarrassing negative publicity to this our nation, for their selfish interest, is not an  issue to be trivialized.
Both the Nigerian government and the populace should ensure that this uncivilized approach to solving labour matters be nipped in the bud with immediate.effect once and for all.
From careful observation of what the NLC has been doing to the government and people of this country over the years, is that, that union does not want the progress of Nigeria, hence for every challenging moment the NLC comes out to 'add salt to injury' {worsen the situation} of the particular challenge. Now even the blind man can see and the deft hear and the little children in nursery and primary schools know that our dear country is not at the best of time in our national economy.
 NLC should be brought to book whether the strike is called off or not the damage is already done and they must apologize or be ready to be dragged to Court for compensation of losses to the masses.