• Blame President Buhari for the Incessant Attack on The country’s Infrastructure.
• MSA Commiserates with the Trade Union Congress Over the Death of Musa Lawal and Akin Akinsola.
• Labour Must Condemned the Attack and Demand Improved Social Infrastructural Development and Workers Living Condition!

PRESS STATEMENT

The terrorist attack on the Kaduna bound train from Abuja on Monday night is an unfortunate incident and highly condemnable. These continuous attacks by the armed group have proven that the Buhari administration has lost control of securing the life of the Nigerian working masses.

The train attacked took over eight lives of innocent commuters and several other passengers kidnapped. Among the innocent Nigerians killed in the attack include the General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Barrister Musa Lawal and the Kwara State Chairman of the TUC Comrade Akin Akinsola. 

WE in the Movement for A Socialist Alternatives (MSA) commiserates with the family of the lost one and the Trade Union over this unfortunate news. We put the blame squarely at the face of the President Mohammadu Buhari’s leadership and his APC government.

The government’s failure to tackle the growing insecurity in the country and improve the standard of living of the ordinary people is among the causes of this disastrous incident witnessed in the country. A week before this incident, the country witness another attack by armed bandits in the Kaduna airport killing a security guard in the process. 

Despite the huge amount allocated annually to the defence sector in the country’s budget, the rank and file of the security operatives are still underequipped and poorly enumerated. The roads as other means of transportation are not motorable and in the last period have become an avenue for kidnappers to operate unhindered. Many people have been reportedly kidnapped not only along the Kaduna-Abuja route but along almost all express roads across the country. 

As it stands now, it is obvious that no life of any individual does matter to the people in government as the ruling elites are currently only interested either in how they remain in office or who succeeds the other, especially now the 2023 General Elections is building cloud without the APC nor PDP willing to resolve the social contradiction rooted in capitalism.

We in the MSA, opposes the capitalist policies of this regime and the previous regime, which have continuously collapsed the economy and widened the gap between the rich and the poor. A system that has continue to contribute to the increase of social insecurities, poverty, unemployment and all form of economic hardship chewing millions of people miserably.

This, they have done by placing the commonwealth of the nation in the hands of only a few individuals in the name of privatization, deregulation, and commercialization. In every part of the country most especially in the northern part where textile industries used to employ thousands of people have today collapsed to the barest minimum.

According to the Nigerian Tribune, “the establishment of the Kaduna Textiles Limited (KTL) led to the establishment of other textile industries in Kaduna, Kano, Funtua and Gusau … findings gathered that in the 1980’s these textiles industries provided about 500,000 direct jobs.”  

The current unproductive ruling elites in Nigeria are not interested in developing any section of the country. However, they are quick to drain the country’s resources by allocating billions of naira for security votes without anything to show for it.

We call on both leadership of TUC, NLC to use the occasion of this year May Day to challenge the government of their failure to secure the country and improve the life of the working masses.

We want to state that the 133 years of the May Day after 1889 should also be used as an opportunity for the leadership of labour to declared building the labour party as a rally point of building a political alternative. On this light, the MSA in solidarity with the demise of the TUC General Secretary and the TUC Chairman Kwara.

We call on workers to independently begin to demand with action the nationalization of the commanding sector of the economy under the democratic management and control of workers and the oppressed masses. This will guide against profligacy and save monies to invest in other vital sectors of the economy such as health, transportation, science and technology, agriculture and education.  

Signed:
Aj. Dagga Tolar
General Secretary,
Movement for a Socialist Alternative, MSA-Nigeria.