Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, has said that labour movement in the country, under the current administration is dead.
Wike made this known during the commissioning of the newly built Trade Union Congress TUC, secretariat in the state, today.
He said under former president Goodluck Jonathan the union was alive.
The Governor, stated that despite the increase in the price of fuel; electricity tariff and the spate of insecurity in the country, the organized labour has kept quiet.
“Since the inception of this government, labour died. Under Jonathan, labour was alive, the country must burn down because he was from minority area. Look at what is happening today: Fuel price increase, insecurity, increase of electricity tarrif. In all these, where is labour? Where is TUC, where is NLC?” he said.
“The only thing I hear is minimum wage all the time. Everytime we are going to National Assembly to stop them from moving minimum wage to state control. That cannot help us. Labour has died. Labour must wake up,” Wike added.
