Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has criticized the substandard conditions of Nigerian laborers under the control of political figures. According to Naija News, Ejifor claimed that the plight of Nigerian workers is characterized by low pay, growing inflation, unpaid payments, and dwindling job security.
The human rights attorney cited the plight of the country’s workers as a result of inadequate political leadership and administration in a statement released on Friday in honor of International Workers Day. Additionally, he criticized organized labor unions’ approach to promoting workers’ rights. Ejiofor called for the country’s political economy to undergo immediate reform and reorganization.
He wrote: “While the world marked Workers’ Day yesterday, Nigerian workers had little or nothing to celebrate. With poor wages, rising inflation, unpaid salaries, and shrinking job security, the average Nigerian worker remains trapped in poverty and despair.
“In a country blessed with vast natural resources, the political economy is built to favour corrupt leaders and the powerful elite – leaving workers to suffer in silence. Our labour unions are weakened, and the system meant to protect workers has become complicit in their oppression.
“Until we restructure our economy and governance to truly value workers, May 1st will remain just another day – loud in rhetoric but empty in reality.
“It is time for urgent reform. It is time to restructure our political economy to serve the people – not to perpetuate the privileges of the powerful. Until then, the Nigerian worker will continue to bleed silently, wrapped in a tattered flag of false promises.”
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