Omololu Ogunmade and Adibe Emenyonu
19 November 2008
Edo — International Trade Union Confederation, an amalgam of workers in five continents, yesterday set agenda for Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and urged him to bring to bear the value of the trade union movement in his activities and policy pronouncements.
This came as government, in a bid to douse rising tension over the fate of local government councils, said there was no plan to dissolve council executives who had been in power since December last year.
In a message sent to Oshiomhole and made available to THISDAY yesterday, the confederation asked him to commence work immediately with necessary zeal and passion, adding that after two years of unjustifiable frustration and delay in the dispensation of justice, Oshiomhole needed to move fast to fill the vacuum for the lost grounds.
Oshiomhole was a member of the Executive Committee of the organisation, as well as the African workers representative at the International Labour Organisation(ILO), for two maximum terms.
General Secretary of the organisation, Kwasi Adu-Amankwah, said there were three basic areas on which Oshiomhole must focus, if he cares to meet the yearnings of the labour movement which he served.
"As you strive to meet your burden of having to cater directly for the well-being of your people, we look to your even-handedness in the allocation of resources to different ends and to the enactment of legislation and policies that bring clear benefits to your people," the confederation stated.
Also, in a statement issued yesterday in Benin, by Secretary to the State Government, Honourable Pally Iriase, the state government said dissolution of the council was not the priority for now, but how to reposition the state to meet the challenges.
"We hereby state that the dissolution of local governments is not the preoccupation of Governor Adams Oshiomhole at this point in time, being engaged in the huge task of sourcing a team that will make Edo government a model in good governance in Nigeria.
"In the same vein, let it be known that the people's governor; does not need to strike a "working relationship agreement" with anybody to govern Edo State peaceably, in view of the overwhelming support and popularity of this government," he said.
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