WORKERS' DAY IN POVERTY

As the May day approaches, an average Nigeria worker is in a serious dilemma as a result of inability of the governments to prioritize workers welfare above selfish interests and personal aggrandizement. Governors use executive power to impoverish the work force and retirees, they loot the state treasuries for selfish motives without putting into consideration the life of the workers who also have


responsibilities to take care on their families. The Labour Unions have also failed gallantly to protect and defend the rights and interests of her members, they have turned everything to politics and game of survival which leave the powerless workers at the mercy of the draconian rulers who have proved overtime to be unrepentantly wicked and selfish. In a situation where workers are being paid what pleases the executive governor of a state, such will not help the system but would rather serve as a catalyst to poverty.

So sad, the middle class has disappeared, no good health schemes and facilities for workers to enjoy, low cost housing estates are becoming a thing of the past, no food, no standard education for the sons and daughters of the poor workers. When you question the so called *constituted Authorities* all they say is that they are building roads and infrastructure. Have they forgotten the *hierarchy of need*? No matter how you build infrastructure when your people are not also built along the system, it is the same people that will kill the system you have selfishly built overtime and nothing good will come out of it.

Many Governors embark on Capital projects at the expense of the masses welfare not because they crave for development but just because that's the best avenue for them to loot and squander public funds.

Retirees who are neglected for close to two years without pension and gratuity have been wallowing in abject poverty with nobody to run to. It is good to be preaching against corruption but fear of poverty will encourage people to steal government money, show lazy and lackadaisical attitudes towards work, be absent from work, ask for bribes and portray some other bad characters due to hunger.

The Local, state and federal governments of Nigeria should stop impoverishing their workers so as to forestall geometric corruption in the nearest future.

Happy workers Day 2017

My name is Bukola Oloyede