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Strikes liberate society, check anarchy, says AD
From Iyabo Sotunde, Ibadan
AS the Labour leadership warms up for another round of industrial action over the increase in the prices of petroleum products, the Alliance for Democracy (AD) yesterday urged Nigerians to support the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in its bid to actualise a free society.
The AD, while backing the planned strike, pointed out that its support by every Nigerian would go a long way in checkmating the drift towards anarchy in the country.
The party, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Ibrahim, stressed that an end must be put to the current "neo-colonialism" being entrenched in the system by the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration.
"The AD, as an offshoot of a pro-democracy organisation, is sad that Nigeria is currently being ruled by those who have no respect for values and norms governing democracy. We are equally sad that the present economic policy of Obasanjo is snuffing lives out of many Nigerians - no work, no food, shelter and the children (our future leaders) are being sent packing from schools and colleges because our government sees no need to invest in them. And petrol, our own gift of nature, is being turned into a curse of nature by President Obasanjo and his team," the AD stated.
Pointing out that Ghana, a non-oil-producing state, had not increased prices of its products despite the hike in the world market, the party wondered why Nigeria, the sixth largest producer of oil in the world, has to traumatise its own people to please the Western World.
The AD said unless Nigerians rise to prevail on President Obasanjo to stop the total sale of the country to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the people would continue to suffer.
It therefore called on its members, civil society and workers to participate and support the NLC in its struggle to make the "neo-colonialists ruling the nation see reason and revert to the old prices."
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