A human rights activist, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, has joined Nigeria workers to celebrate 2024 workers day, thanking God for sparing their lives to witness another May Day celebration and describing the workers as partners in progress in developing this country.
In a statement signed by Comrade Sulaiman on Wednesday commended the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu for approving the new salary percentage for the workers.
Meanwhile, the President led current Federal Government and other State Governors in the nation would address the Nigeria Workers today May 1st, 2024 where the policy issues in respect of workers welfare would be taken a centre at this year 2024 May Day celebration.
He urged the President to jack up the percentage of new wages increase approved by the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission for the Nigeria workers to make it 35 percent and 45 percent instead of newly approved 25 percent and 35 percent respectively because of the current economic reality in the country.
Comrade Sulaiman, equally, enjoined President Tinubu to address the current fuel scarcity ravaging the land that has brought untold hardship on the Nigeria masses, adding that the current fuel scarcity had skyrocketed the prices of goods and services in the land.
Sulaiman, who is Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice CHRSJ further disclosed that additional percentage salary increase requesting for Nigeria workers was to ameliorate the current economic hardship facing the Nigeria workers and by extension, Nigeria masses, as a result of the subsidy removal policy of Tinubu administration, urging the Federal and State Governments to consider the increase for its workforce.
CHRSJ Chief further enjoined the Labour leaders in the country to use their Unions platform to seek for the welfarism of the Nigeria masses and not for the increase of salaries of their members alone always.
He called on the Nigeria workers to do the annual celebration moderately, saying that the present situation did not call for elaborate celebration of workers day but for sobber reflections because of the present multi- dimensional problems facing the land.
Sulaiman, who doubles as Convener, Save Lagos Group (SLG), noted that all hands should be on deck in order to finding the lasting solutions to the mirage of problems including; security, economy, corruption, and so on, confronting the country presently.