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Oyinlola, rights group want Labour to shelve action, embrace dialogue
From Seun Adeoye (Osogbo)
OSUN State Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress to hold its fire.
Oyinlola, who hosted the state's Islamic clerics at the Government House, stated that the workers should embrace dialogue to solve the knotty issue of petroleum prices.
According to him, the industrial action would not only affect the nation's economic development but the masses would be the losers at the end of the day.
His words: "What the Labour leaders want to achieve by calling their members out for strike is for the government to change its mind, but dialogue is the best approach to this issue.
"The nation won't be able to move ahead and all things would stand still. For the love of our nation and country, let the Labour leaders embrace dialogue."
Congratulating Moslems on the successful observance of the Ramadan as one of the five pillars of Islam, Oyinlola enjoined them to live in peace.
"While joining Moslems in celebrating the Eid-el-Fitri, I will however enjoin all to imbibe the values and virtues the Almighty Allah intends us all to learn from the sacrifices and self-denial of the past one month," he said.
The governor told the clerics that their faith in Allah would be incomplete without "our loving and caring for the less-privileged.
"We would be doing exactly what Allah wants us to gain from Ramadan if we continue to run away from those ills we distanced ourselves from in the last one month. Surely, Allah loves those who fear Him and do good always," he added.
Also, the Bureau of African Labour, Human and Democratic Rights (BALHADER) a non-governmental organisation, has called on Nigerians to eschew bitterness and subversive activities in the interest of peace and national stability.
Briefing journalists recently in Lagos, BALHADER President, Chief C.C. Nnorom, said since the strike option usually resulted from collective bargaining, "the NLC, being a mere association of trade unions, cannot originate any collective bargaining, not to talk of leading workers on strike.
"To do otherwise is ultra vires to the powers of the NLC and therefore unconstitutional," the group warned.
Nnorom also said the leadership of some trade unions were "very weak, un-informed, and prefer saddling the NLC with their primary responsibilities."
He explained that Nigeria and its multi-ethnic constituents had "firmly and solemnly resolved to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation dedicated to the promotion of inter-African solidarity, world peace, international cooperation and understanding."`
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