Fresh Trouble Looms; More Crocodile Tears From Oshiomhole
By Adeola Soetan
The illogical and senseless nature of criminal capitalism is exemplified by Nigeria’s experience with privatization. The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and fellow left activists had warned the Adams Oshiomhole-led NLC of the risks associated with the Olusegun Obasanjo regime’s privatization policies.
You guys refused to listen to the voices of sound reasoning and ideas because of what you wanted to eat and for political patronage. Other labour leaders have continued to give blind support to successive pro-capitalist anti-poor governments of Structural Adjustment Program, SAP, including Bola Tinubu’s regime of pain, which continued to unleash IMF – World Bank neo-liberal economic policies of hardship, privatisation, deregulation, commercialisation, devaluation, over taxation and others on Nigerians.
What have all these their policies led the nation to? Hunger, mass unemployment, collapsed factories, mass poverty, high school drop-outs, killing of agriculture, collapsed health system, hyperinflation, insecurity and more public funds for the criminal ruling class to loot.
Oshiomhole, like his colleagues in the labour bureaucracy then and now, is a deceptive demagogue, ruling class collaborator, an unprincipled individual who liked to run away from their historical revolutionary tasks of leading and mobilizing the workers and the entire public to fight and defend their right to life and economic survival. Shame!
Revolutionary idea and practice prepare us to have foresight over astonishment. This is what Osibobo & Co. lack as class collaborators of the rogue political ruling class.
Shed no crocodile tears, Oshiomhole, because you are part of the criminal ruling class and conscious collaborator of the system that brought the nation and its citizens to this sad state.
