Privatisation was made to enrich collected few at detriment of Nigerian masses- NLC

By allcitynews.ng

The President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero has again described the privatisation in Nigeria as a structure built on faulty foundation.

Speaking during his commencement of his ongoing courtesy visits to unions in Lagos, Ajaero said privatisation was a way whereby the public properties were sold into the hands of collected few at the detriment of the general public.

He pointed out that the same group of people who clamoured for the sale of public properties were the same set  that sold and bought the public properties. Hence, the same Federal Government that did not inject any fund prior to the privatisation, then started releasing fund into the same electricity after the privatisation because they sold it and bought it by themselves and use public fund to maintain it.

Addressing the gathering in his first point of visit: National Union of Chemical Footwear Rubber Leather and Non Metallic Products Employees (NUCFRLANMPE), Ajaero explained the visit was meant to find out the problems confronting Nigerian masses through the unions.

Comrade Olatunji Babatunde Goke, while briefing the NLC President and the media team that followed, appealed to the parent body to help in curbing casualisation, outsourcing some of the challenges that have been plaguing the industry.

The National President of Steel and Engineering Workers Union of Nigeria (SEWUN), Comrade Emmanuel Adesanya in his welcome address said “I cannot end this address without informing you that Nigerian workers and the entire prople of this country are looking up to you as a leader of NLC to liberate them.”

Also the outgoing National President, National Union of Food, Beverages & Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE), Comrade Oyelekan Lateef, called on Comrade Ajaero to come to the aid of the union against gradual crumbling of the sector by casualisation.

Explaining the reasons for the courtesy visits to unions, Comrade Ajaero said the purpose is to find the collaboration of all the unions and other stakeholders in tackling the problems that have been affecting the workers.

He called on the unions to come out with lists of their challenges, lists of yet-to-unionised companies and their locations to enable the NLC know how sanitise the sector.

Ajaero noted that one of the factors militating against any prospects for any solution to redundancy and casualisation is that the current leadership of some unions and Ministry of Labour and Employment are also directly or indirectly in ownership of most of the outsourcing companies.

What they are doing is to change casualisation to outsourcing, it is an advanced way of manipulation of casualisation. It’s just unfortunate that ministry is indirectly supporting casualisation by making casual workers to be unionised.

How can you give blanket licence for people in casual to be unionised whereas within two years the employers will sack them and replace them with new set? What we are fighing for and which I believe the ministry should support, is conversion of such workers into permenent staff before they are unionised.”

March 1 2023 is day two of the visit.

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