The President and the Publisher of All Campus Show, Comrade Busuyi Ojo-Jobus who is also a filmmaker has lambasted the Nigerian Labour Congress for going on strike for the wrong course.
As NLC and TUC had gone on national strike on Monday as well as which they instructed their unions across the state to shutdown and obey the strike command.
NLC proposed N497,000 as the minimum wage while federal government responded that afford only N60,000. If FG agrees to pay 497,000 as minimum wage, would state be able to pay, will the private companies and Enterprises be able to pay? NLC has not thought well at all.
According to Paul Alaje on channels TV this morning, he said he knows FG can afford N100,000 while Labour says it must be N490,000 plus he said Government may not have the money and also will affect private sectors, then when they knew these, why are they still fighting for it, how many of them can pay their housemaid that amount? Alaje also said the high cost of living is 33.9% according to national statistics bureau, which things may go worse than before.
According to Jobus "minimum wage increment should not have been the reason to stage protest as it is not the major thing Nigerian workers need now, NLC is fighting for wrong course, the points they should fight for should be when bandits are killing the workers, do you know how many workers have been kidnapped, killed? Farmers were killed in their farms which resulted to the famine that escalated to inflation of products, services and high cost of living, NLC didn't go on strike.
"We applauded NLC thinking they are right on their decision to protest and shut down the National Labour spaces just for the ineffective conclusion on increments of minimum wage with FG.
"If NLC is wise enough, they should have done this before now for insecurity against the farmers in the farms that inflated farm products, as the major primary reason for the inflation is that farmers can't go to farms again, I think 'prevention is better than cure' they say.
"According to my research, when government proposed to increase health workers in a foreign country, they protested that why would they increase their salaries, because they are literates, they know that increasing salaries is a bribe to increase cost of living which will damage their economy.
"Therefore, it's illiteracy that makes NLC to fight for the increment, what they should fight for is security of the farmers so they can farm and make this cost of living low and affordable to buy with the worker's little income.
"In Nigeria before, if you take N20,000 to the market, you will buy half bag of rice, soup ingredients including meat and fish, with many things, this is about 5 years ago.
"America as an instance, the price they buy products 5 years ago are still the same price they buy things now, no inflation on any products, no high cost of living, no increment of salary, the economy is balance, because things are increased in the market should not be the reason to ask for increment of salary. We make references to this country but we can't think like them to liberate ourselves.
"If government remove subsidy and affect the price of fuel, the right sense is to fight for the price to come down and or be regulated, not you also fighting for the salary to go up, if salary goes up, there is no how it can buy the prices of things that have been inflated, then soon, government will increase the fuel again and the NLC will also requested the salary to be increased, this will now be game of 'chop make I chop' which pushed this country to this level, can't we learn from the economy of other foreign country and apply it to our own instead of running away to the country (Japa) but with increment of everything, Naira will be depreciated the more if minimum wage is increased, soon as N10 can not buy anything, N1,000 will not be able to buy anything, therefore, the step of the the NLC, TUC is wrong and making economy to be flunctuating and it's not good for future, it's high time we start thinking ahead, think healthy and I want NLC to rethink, if they need help, I Jobus can make myself available to them." Jobus Concluded