Overlook the proposed subsidy strike action by NLC and TUC

1. For the records, I do NOT support any strike action, mobilized by NLC and its allies.

Why?

i. In this hard time, some people CANNOT survive without daily income. Why should I deprive them, of their right to DAILY survival?

ii. Personally, I feel the NLC and TUC, not forgetting ASUU have been too docile and tractable. Whatever, they want to do now, is medicine after death!

2. No doubt, deregulation of the downstream sector is the way to go. My pain however, is that this ought to have been done since 2012, but for politics... Since it is removed, the rest is history!

The argument of the government and its foot soldiers however, that the minimum wage will be jacked up, is NOT tenable. It is mischievous and misleading.

Why?

I. Majority of Nigerians are not salary earners. With a paltry 89,000 civil servants population already consuming over 600 billion naira salaries annually with little or no productivity to show for it, what will be the fate of over 170 million other Nigerians, who are with private firms, self-employed or unemployed? Will the private firms, also increase salaries to reflect the reality on ground?

ii. Will transport operators understand that it is ONLY the government staff whose salaries have been increased? Don't forget that it is only in Nigeria that things go up, but never come down.

iii. What about the farmers, the market women and students, whose mum is a fish seller? Who will defend their rights to higher income? Oh! They could as well, increase the cost of their services. Okay!

iv. What is the impact of the social inclusiveness, proposed by the government prior to the elections? The government should be reminded that those that voted them into power, were the unemployed, underemployed, farmers, artisans, etc who wanted change at all cost; and not the civil servants and or public servants.

It is therefore deceitful, for a democratically elected government, to bamboos us with salary increments. This will only make less than 3% of the entire population, smile to bank; leaving the rest of us deprived from the benefits, CAPITAL PROJECTS could provide.

But what can we do, in my FANTASTIC country, where the more you look, is the less you see.

Whatever the government would propose at this time, should trickle down to the bottom of the pyramid, because that's where the pains are felt most.

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