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Group Faults Moves to Decentralise Labour By Ndubuisi Ugah and Tunyosola Ayansiji As Nigerians continue to react to President Olusegun Obasanjo's move to decentralise the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) has kicked against the move, saying the NLC remains the last hope of the masses. In a statement made available to THISDAY President of the organisation, Mr. Elliot Uko, frowned at President Obasanjo's insistence on decentralising NLC insisting that "the National Assembly must not pass that bill". Uko said "IYM disagrees with Mr. President and his aides, who are urging him to cage the NLC". "The IYM wishes to remind Mr. President that riding on the euphoria of the National Assembly's free will in passing the law on Plateau state based on the emergency rule, to want to believe that the National Assembly would support the new law designed to clip the wings of labour is carnal and ungodly", he stressed. The IYM President noted that, labour as a veritable machinery in oiling the wheel of national development needed freedom and not an infringement by whatever law that would stop it from achieving its set objectives to the Nigerian masses. "When labour would need 2/3 of its members to vote for a strike, it then would mean that labour has to conduct a referendum on every issue it wants to take action", Uko added. Meanwhile, the IYM has commended Governor Chris Ngige and his political opponents for toeing the path of peace especially in resolving the protracted crisis in the state. The organisation recalled that, the crisis had been a shameful dent on the conscience of Ndigbo, adding that "we believe that if the peace is real and Anambra finally knows peace, Ndigbo will be the better for it". On Governor Ibrahim Shekarau's apology over the recent reprisal attacks on Ndigbo in kano state, Uko said the organisation accepted the apology based on the fact that it would help stem the frequent outbreak of violence in the state and country at large. "Finally, IYM accepts the apologies of Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano state, but wishes to state loud and clear that the May 2004 killings of Ndigbo in Kano, will be the last that will not be retaliated", he declared. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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