The NLC, which has already commenced industrial action in Imo, advised the state government to focus on serving the people.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Imo State Council has likened civic engagement with the Imo State Government to a dialogue between lions and hyena.
The council, in a statement dated March 11 and signed by its State Secretary, Anukwuorji Nduka, described the Commissioner of Information, Declan Emelumba, as one of those who derive “joy in using the name of the governor to cow and intimidate workers and trade union leaders.”
The statement said, “While the people live and suffer in absolute fear in the streets, this commissioner deploys all manners of abusive language in engaging the people in the comfort of their homes through the local radio and television. He strouts around without any form of decency spewing hatred and mischief against anyone or organisation that dares to contradict his unholy position. He appears in all honesty to have the ears of the governor thus uses it to wreak havoc on hapless Imo people.”
The NLC said Mr Emelumba lives in lies and feeds the governor with lies. It noted that lying to the people shows a great disrespect for the people.
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“The truth remains that this government owes workers years in unpaid salaries. No amount of propaganda and lies can erase that or make the workers not to ask for it. It is also a fact that this government has continued to stigmatise its workers by declaring over 11,000 of them ghost workers and impounding their salaries and wages in the process. Name calling will not wipe them away.
“The truth is that this government owes pensioners in the state over 20 months in arrears and did not pay gratuities to its workers for nearly 15 years yet those in government receive their salaries and allowances without fail. The prattling of the commissioner will not take that away,” it said.
The NLC further said that the Uzodimma administration likes the use of threat and violence to extract compliance to their wish as was demonstrated in the disruption of last state delegates conference of the NLC where its agents attacked delegates and carted away materials to be used in the exercise.
The NLC, which has already commenced industrial action in Imo, advised the state government to focus on serving the people.
