A revolution has started in Nigeria, fuelled by anger birthed from a genuine discontent with the system and the cycle of gerontocracy being forced on Nigerians. It is not enough to have a revolutionary anger; that anger must inspire us to change our objective condition - Omoyele Sowore.

As inherent in the motto of the Nigeria Labour Congress and duly supported by history: labour creates wealth. And this wealth generated by the labour of workers remains the foundation upon which any economy including Nigeria’s is erected. However, the wealth created by the Nigerian workers has been that which subsequent governments have used to enslave Nigerian workers for the past 58 years. This groundless enslavement erected on a system of servitude has confronted workers in different forms; slave wages, lack of basic healthcare, lack of occupational safety, labour casualization, unemployment/underemployment, education commercialisation, attacks on independent unionism and insecurity of both lives and jobs.

The most monstrous of these deliberate attacks on workers is privatisation of publicly owned property. This fraudulent scheme has not only translated into overconcentration of our wealth in the hands of the few and irreconcilable class inequality, but has also meant that Nigerian workers are made direct victims through mass retrenchments. This scheme can be chronicled to the ugly days of Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) during which we took up the military regime led by General Babangida’s government against an attempt to use this policy to create a haven for the rich and a paradise for the thieves.

However, these attacks on the Nigerian working class have not always come without conscious resistance from workers, students and the Nigerian masses at large. The history of the Nigerian ruling class is that of violent attacks on the living/working conditions of the Nigerian workers. Ours is a history of fighting them to a successful standstill. This is our history; the history of the revolutionary Nigerian working class. It is a history of consistent attacks, consistent resistances and consistent victories.

The TakeItBack Movement and the African Action Congress are prepared to join Nigerian workers in their demand for a living wage. It should be recalled that the African Action Congress has been unrepentant on its stance to pay workers a minimum of a 100,000 naira living wage. This is very possible considering the enormous wealth created by the workers themselves but ironically at the disposal of profligate and rapacious ruling class.

It would interest you to know that Nigeria, despite its enormous wealth, pays the least amount as minimum wage but ironically runs the most expensive Government that pays political office holders outrageous salaries and extravagant allowances. Even the ideologically wretched and economically subversive World Bank premises economic growth on the need to pay $300 (unskilled workers), $900 (skilled workers) as minimum and $1,800 on the maximum to workers. This was arrived at after considering the living index in Nigeria. Despite the mindless attachment of the Nigerian ruling class to its IMF imperial master, $38 is what the Nigerian government could disgracefully pay to its workers – and that, inconsistently.

Unfortunately for some ‘economists’ who, at best, understand the subject matter through the lenses of the ‘Washington Consensus’ and International Monetary ‘fraud’ (IMF), they believe an increase in minimum wage would lead to inflation. These ‘economists’ would never come with this same outdated argument when its time to attack workers with increase in fuel price, electricity tariff, water bills, tenement rates, school fees and irrational extortions. They would never talk of inflation when politicians loot billions of dollars from the nation’s treasury and reward themselves with outrageous salaries and allowances.

The last time the minimum wage was increased in Nigeria was in 2011, yet the cost of commodities between 2011 and now has tripled if not quadrupled. Between these same periods, politicians have looted more and increased their respective allowances. Yet no one is talking about inflation. But when it comes to paying workers who are the actual producers of wealth, then they blackmail workers’ demands with the menace of inflation.

For us in the African Action Congress, we will not only increase living wage to 100,000 naira, we would also reverse all policies of privatisation by previous governments and forthwith build a very strong and democratically managed public sector.
To bring to conclusion my message to you at this decisive stage in our history, I would like to reiterate that our struggles against slave wages, casualization, commercialisation and privatisation viz all policies that create class inequality must nevertheless be connected to overthrowing this overbearing system of servitude.

This is what the TakeItBack Movement and the African Action Congress stand for. We call on you to join us in the struggle to overhaul this exploitative system characterized by profligate rulers even as we march into the 2019 general elections.

Let the oppressed and the workers take it back.

Source: Nigeria News Headlines

I seriously pray this Take it back Man wins!

I'll love to see how Nigeria will be in his Leadership!

Any right thinking person shouldn’t join the strike because the Labour boss is Buhari’s boy. They are just acting script for us.

Locate your pvc and keep it in a plastic case till February. We are changing this wicked leaders.

Sowore will do an excellent job.

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I seriously pray this Take it back Man wins!

I'll love to see how Nigeria will be in his Leadership!

We will vote for him! Let’s vote for him together

Don't know who to trust in Nigeria sef. Give people power and you'll know them better.

our strike is killing us ooo

Aluta Continua...Victoria ascerta!!!

he should stock foodstuffs for them as well


Get your rmb @ #350/¥

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Wish we all can decide to waste our votes by voting for any party but APC and PDP.

Strike or no strike all we want is positive result by way of increase in salary.

How do you convince the average aboki and almajiri to vote for sowore?
With the way Nigeria is structured , people like him will never win without a politicians(s) as godfathers

Wow!

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I seriously pray this Take it back Man wins!

I'll love to see how Nigeria will be in his Leadership!

In this case you don't need to pray. Just vote.

Trump was right after all... Nigeria is indeed a shithole

Yes to SOWORE 2019
The rich/elite class who are the policy makers in Nigeria don't want the poor to catch up...They would rather they continue to worship them

How i wish.... But truth be told it is between pmb and Atiku anyother person is just wasting resources... Kolewerk it is between Zombies and Wailers.... All others are just spectators who will spoil and waste votes... Honest truth

This guy will win , inec should not play with our votes if not there will be war in the land. Sowore is taking it back

My own submission is this:"let's try this man at least for four years who knows he may be our own Jerry Rawlings. He owns us only one tenure. If he fails, we will keep changing them till we get it right. APC and PDP had been tried and they failed the test. Let's phase out these old cargoes out come 2019. Together we can! ".

If 30,000 is approved.
30,000 X 12 = 360,000 in a year
If a worker works for the maximum 35 years
360,000 X 35 = 12, 600,000
Which means what the minimum wage earner will receive in his LIFETIME of work is less than what a senator receives in a MONTH, apart from his salary!!!
# copied

Nobody holy pass. Till power is in your care, you won't know what you can do...
Every aspirant with different kind of promises.

God Bless Nigeria!!!

Very concise and straight to the point. However, it is quite unfortunate that we have only two parties in this country, it is either APC or PDP, if not this guy has what it takes to make an impact. But with time things will fall into place, for now let's give atiku a chance.

Whobedatte:
How do you convince the average aboki and almajiri to vote for sowore?
With the way Nigeria is structured , people like him will never win without a politicians(s) as godfathers

Lol.... that's the reality on ground o... How do you convince them?? Mhen,

i hope all these become possitive.

Whobedatte:
How do you convince the average aboki and almajiri to vote for sowore?
With the way Nigeria is structured , people like him will never win without a politicians(s) as godfathers

Aren't they human, the question should be if ''YOU'' are convinced, if you are, others would as well.

DECENCY3:
Strike or no strike all we want is positive result by way of increase in salary.

They are not even talking about an increament that makes sense. Who can survive on $84 a month with 2 kids.

Let’s vote a different person Sowore is different intelligent

That’s right!

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In this case you don't need to pray. Just vote.

you Vote, you pray!!

Cos Except the Lord builds a House, the builders build but in Vain!

nigerians are just too stupid they wont vote for him. they will e screaming atiku then last come crying here. please let them not increase salary because stupid people dont deserve an increase in salary. let them suffer so they can receive sense

Take it Back

Whobedatte:
How do you convince the average aboki and almajiri to vote for sowore?
With the way Nigeria is structured , people like him will never win without a politicians(s) as godfathers

Don’t get stocked in that illusion, do something to create the change you desire. This is a new era, a new age and a new dawn.

Join us instead of being discourage....we are changing the history of black race on the planet . Come and be part of this great success.

Take it back team love you