The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has requested that President Bola Tinubu invite the organisers of an upcoming nationwide protest to discuss the difficulties the nation’s inhabitants are facing.
“These are dire times,” the NLC president said in a statement released on Monday, criticising what it called the “hostility” of the Nigerian government towards the planned protest and claiming that it does not “offer any tangible remedy either to the pain endured by the populace or the frustrations of having so little in a country where a few privileged persons are living in obscene luxury.” Nigerians are angry.
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The Labour leader claimed that President Tinubu must address these issues in light of the rising inflation rate of 34.19% and the increases in the prices of food and electricity tariffs among other things.
“It is, therefore, condescending and dismissive to describe the daily brutish ordeal that Nigerians are going through as a sponsored political dissent. Even if it is so, it is still within the confines of citizens’ rights to protest on political grounds. Just that the current unease in the country does not need political motivation to spark and splurge,” Ajaero said.
“All that the hurting citizens demand from their government is a listening ear and an empathetic heart. Maybe, that is what the organisers of the protest are looking for given their continued notices on different social media platforms.”
“The times require the government to ‘jaw-jaw’ and not ‘war war’ with Nigerians.” He stated, The truth is that you cannot smack a child and at the same time ask the child not to cry,”
