The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC has drawn a battle line
with the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike over the
demolitions in the capital city, Abuja.
The NLC president Comrade Joe Ajaero in an interview described
the demolitions which he said were mainly directed at the poor as akin to
Hitler’s tyranny.
Responding to question during an interview on AIT, Comrade
Ajaero said: “Shelter is among Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and you go and
demolish it and ask them to go to hell and your so called master plan is in
your pocket.
“Nobody knows where your master plan is. And you watch NLC
draws battle line over Wike’s demolition planin Abuja them, some of them use
their retirement benefits to start foundation (and you demolish it), that will
not continue,” Ajaero said.
Alleging a war by the Nigerian elites against the poor,
Comrade Ajaero said that “Nigeria’s political class should realise that the
poor are suffering that they can no longer breathe.”
Noting the way that Wike has gone about the demolitions
which the NLC president said has mostly affected the poor in Abuja, he said:
“it is impoverishing the masses and it is done with a level of impunity similar
to Hitler’s tyranny in Germany. That should not continue because it is
affecting more workers. If you check the people whose houses are being demolished
it is that class of people that you have not provided houses for.”
“Nigeria’s disposition to welfarism is gone even when it is provided
for in the Constitution.
Nobody cares for your transportation, you generate your
water, your electricity, you pay your children’s school fees, no hospitals.
Even when workers contribute money for housing policies, it is being diverted.
So, this war cannot continue,” the NLC president said in vowing to put a stop to the demolitions allegedly orchestrated by Wike that affect the working class in Abuja.
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