Industrialisation: MSA calls for building of new functional refineries

By allcitynews.ng

As a step in actualising industrialisation, a Non-Governmental Organisation, Movement for a Socialist Alternative (MSA), has reminded President Muhammadu Buhari –led government of the need to build new functional reflneries, fixed existing refineries ones into full production refineries and put an end to importation of fuel.

MSA in a statement by the Organising Secretary,  Wole Olubanji and Spokesperson, Dagga Tolar,  believed that for democratic control of workers in Nigeria to be established, there must be building of new refineries which will be steps in right direction for the industrialization of the country.

The path out of unemployment, noted MSA, can only be paved by the direction of social resources and manpower to develop the means of production and this cannot be achieved by the false notion of encouraging the private sector, either local or foreign ones, to take up this task, in the bare face of the fact that the country possesses the wealth and resources to bring this about.

Demands for absorption of all disengaged Npower workers into civil service

For this reason, the MSA is committed to an ideological repositioning of Nigeria’s political economy. We struggle for a society where the country’s workforce and resources, under the democratic control of the society, can be harnessed for social development. However, in the immediate, on this particular issue, we are demanding the absorption of all disengaged Npower workers into the public service, and the immediate payment of all their outstanding emoluments. We call on the labour movement,

Called on labour to champion cause of exploited Npower  workers

In the same vein, MSA appealed to NLC, ULC, TUC, IndustriALL, and civil society organisations, to champion the cause of the exploited Npower workers, who have been casualised by the very government charged under Nigerian Labour laws to ensure decent employment. We as well demand that government puts in place a programme for young people in the country that will ensure a stipend for all secondary school leavers and unemployment allowance for unemployed graduates.