…requests additional percentage for workers, urges Tinubu to address fuel scarcity
A human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, has joined Nigerian workers to celebrate this year’s Workers Day celebration, thanking God for sparing their lives to witness another May Day celebration on Earth.
He described the workers as partners in progress in the development of Nigeria.
Meanwhile, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government and other state Governors in the nation would address the Nigeria Workers on Wednesday May 1, 2024 where the policy issues in respect of workers’ welfare would be taking a centre-stage at this year’s May Day celebration.
The Pro-democracy activist commended President Bola Tinubu for approving the new salary percentage for the workers, urging the President to jack up the percentage of new wages increase approved by the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission for the Nigeria workers to make it 35 percent and 45 percent instead of newly approved 25 percent and 35 percent, respectively because of the current economic reality in the country.
Comrade Sulaiman, equally, enjoined President Tinubu to address the current fuel scarcity ravaging the land that has brought untold hardship on the Nigeria masses, adding that the current fuel scarcity had skyrocketed the prices of goods and services in the land.
Sulaiman, who is Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) further disclosed that the additional percentage salary increase requesting for Nigeria workers was to ameliorate the current economic hardship facing the Nigeria workers and by extension, Nigeria masses, as a result of the subsidy removal policy of the President Bola Tinubu administration, urging the Federal and State Governments to consider the increase for its workforce.
CHRSJ Chief further enjoined the Labour leaders in the country to use their Unions platform to seek for the welfarism of the Nigeria masses and not for the increase of salaries of their members alone always.
This was contained in a statement issued by the CHRSJ’S Media office and copies were made available to newsmen on Tuesday evening, called on the Nigeria workers to do the annual celebration moderately, saying that the present situation did not call for elaborate celebration of workers day but for sobber reflections because of the present multi- dimensional problems facing the land.
Sulaiman, who doubles as Convener,Save Lagos Group (SLG), noted that all hands should be on deck in order to finding the lasting solutions to the mirage of problems including; security, economy, corruption, and so on, confronting the country presently.
Signed:
Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman
(Revolutionary Alfa),
Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ)
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