Per Second News—- The Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi on Thursday took a swipe at labour unions in the country for doing nothing to fight for a better Nigeria for the citizens.
In a May Day rally in the state, he accused the labour unions of running away from the solution of fixing Nigeria.
“The unions know the problem, the solution, but they don’t want to go for the solution. I don’t know why and I don’t know if they have compromised”.
I remember when I was a student leader; you cannot arrest a student union leader without schools closing all over Nigeria. You cannot steal that kind of money that is being stolen in Nigeria without all the universities going demonstration and schools all over the country will be closed. You cannot do that without labour union coming out to the streets.
Today all of us who are labour leaders are junketing and enjoying with politicians. So, the poor masses are suffering because they have nobody to speak for them. They (poor masses) are voiceless and there is no leader to lead the voiceless. They are hungry and there is nobody to address their hunger.
You as labour leaders have not asked of what we need to do to get this democracy working? Why is there impunity? Why are policemen being used against Nigerians? Why should Nigeria lose 200 children and nobody is talking? It could be your turn.” He concluded.