As the workers celebrate the May Day today, a labour veteran and pro-democracy activist, Comrade Frank Kokori, has said that politicians who came out of the 1993-98 struggle for the entrenchment of democracy, have failed the country. The former Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), now Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, also stated that the
present government is incapable of making the nation’s refinery work.
Chief Kokori in an interview at the NUPENG Special Delegates Conference in Lagos, lamented that the politicians have failed to live up to the expectation as true democrats. “There is no doubt about it that the Nigerian politicians which came out of the struggle for democracy which we had between 1993 and 94, to 98 have let us down”, he said. He noted that it was not only the veterans in the struggle that the politicians have let down but the entire people of Nigeria.
He said: “Everybody, they’ve let us down. Actually we were thinking that by now a lot of things would have changed in Nigeria. First of all the issue of corruption, corruption is annoying, it’s becoming obscene and people are very sad about it and any government that could not attack corruption and allow those people who have looted to go unpunished, there is no message being given to the people.” On what would make the refineries work, Kokori, who was once a major stakeholder in the industry, stated matter of fact that the present administration do not have the ability to make the Nigeria refinery work.
Culled - DailySun
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