We’re dying of hunger but won’t be intimidated, workers tell Fayose
Workers in Ekiti state have accused Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, of employing the divide and rule tactics rather than dialogue with labour.
At the end of a meeting with members of the state legislature in Ado-Ekiti, Ade Adesanmi, state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), said no amount of intimidation would stop the ongoing strike.
Adesanmi said no worker had been paid salaries in the past five months, lamenting the effect of the lack of remuneration.
“It is disheartening that government is castigating us for demanding for our legitimate right,” he said.
“There is hunger in town; there is economic hardship; our members can no longer feed their families.
“Our members are attacked by anti-NLC protesters; but I want to say no amount of intimidation, divide and rule, will stop us.”
He added that the NLC was ready to dialogue, if there was commitment on the part of government.
“Labour’s doors are open for negotiation; but this ongoing strike continues until government shows some level of commitment,” he said.
Kola Oluwawole, speaker of the state house of assembly, has pleaded with labour to go back to work, while discussion continues.
Oluwawole promised to organise a meeting between the government and labour, to find lasting solution to the crisis.
It shows that these governors only care about their cars, homes, properties, security on the backs of their own people. While their people starve, they live in luxury paid by the taxpayers.
This governor is excellent in attacking buhari but can’t pay his own people.
This is Nigeria where the politicians live like royalty on the backs of their own people who die of starvation and lack of medical while they get the best of everything.
Must be great to see starving children.