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The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has implored Nigerians not to lose hope amid the broken promises, exploitation and pervasive corruption which they are currently experiencing.
The President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, had made this disclosure in a statement on Monday to mark Nigeria’s 64th Independence Day celebrations.
He commended Nigerian workers for their sacrifice, resilience and robust spirit despite betrayals by the country’s political class.
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“We urge the downtrodden Nigerians who bear the marks or burden of these broken promises, exploitation and corruption to not give up hope on their country,” said the NLC president.
His comments come as Nigeria is set to celebrate its liberation from colonialism on October 1, 1960.
However, post-independence, Nigerians have been beleaguered by high inflation, energy costs, infrastructural deficits, lack of adequate electricity supply, and naira crisis at the foreign exchange markets without lasting solutions.
Ahead of the planned nationwide protests on Tuesday, October 1, Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has made open revelations that the planned demonstration is within the right of Nigerians.
The Eastern Updates also reported that some Nigerian youths were also planning to stage a nationwide protest on the day the nation is celebrating its Independence Day anniversary.
The protest is birthed by the growing hunger and other economic hardship bedevilling the citizens.
Speaking on the matter, the Leader of Afenifere, Chief Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti, said in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, that “it is the right of the people to do so.”
The organisation, however, pleaded that such should be done peacefully without looting or causing any damage to property and without harming anybody.
The statement called on the federal government under President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to do more in the areas of security, agriculture, education, and the economy and increase its efforts at ensuring that available infrastructure functions while also working on providing more.
