African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD)
On 1st May, 2012, African workers will join their counterpart across the world to celebrate this year's worker's day. May Day is International Workers Day, a day for workers across the world to stand together in unity in commemoration of the 1886 Chicago Strike by workers for an eight-hour work day.
This year's workers day is taking place is taking place under conditions of extreme challenges in Africa. The impact of the global economic meltdown is still biting hard. The effect of the neo-liberal policies of the International Financial Institutions is creating more difficulties for the working people on a daily basis.
The workers day celebration is taking place in a very precarious situation in the giant of Africa, Nigeria. As workers prepare to celebrate in some parts of the country, bombs and gun fires is the order of the day in other parts of the country by terrorists.
“The level of insecurity and terrorist attacks that we witness in Nigeria today is partly as a result of poverty, unemployment and anti-workers policies that have been implemented in Nigeria especially since the intensification of neo-liberal anti-workers policies in the 1980s” said Dr. Otive Igbuzor, the Executive Director of the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development.
“These policies have impoverished the working people, created a reserve army of the unemployed, increased illiteracy, exacerbated poverty and created emergency millionaires and billionaires who produce no goods and offer no services but engage in rent seeking and corruptible transactions.”
The Centre LSD call on the Nigerian government and indeed all governments in Africa to provide the leadership required to ensure security for all working people and organize the society to work for the security and welfare of the people. Strategies and Policies must be put in place to tackle insecurity, terrorism, unemployment, corruption, industrialization and poverty eradication
The Centre LSD call on all African workers to march today for the dignity of labour. African workers must also march against incompetence, corruption and impunity among bureaucrats and politicians.
In particular, African working people must march for working peoples' power.
Workers of Africa, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
Contact:
Mr. Monday Osasah, Programme Officer, Centre LSD (Tel: +234 08037477498)
Website: www.centrelsd.org; E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Headquarters: Suite 27-28, Tolse Plaza, 4 Franca Afegbua Crescent, Off J. S. Mariere road, Near Legislative Quarters, Apo, Abuja, Nigeria.
Niger Delta Office: No. 1 Amb. Ralph Uwechie Way, Off Okpanam road, Opposite Legislative Quarters, Asaba, Delta State.
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