[A SPECIAL EDITION FOR THE EYES OF MR. PRESIDENT!]


PAY NEW WAGES AND SIGN THE PEACE CORPS BILL TO CONSOLIDATE VICTORY AT 2019 POLLS!


That the APC's Government is faithfully delivering on its cardinal three-pronged promise to entrench effective and adequate security within the geographical entity of Nigeria, destroy corruption in all facets of national life and prod the ailing economy which it inherited from 29th May, 2015 to an acceptable and enviable international standard, is no longer in contention because its laudable achievements in just three-and-a-half years of administration, have been highly-rated and commended at home by Nigerian democrats/patriots in the public/private Sectors and abroad by the African Union, United Nations, United States, European Union, Britain, several Third World Countries and the Islamic States!

However, what is in contention and inappropriate is a noticeable BREACH within the rank and file of the kitchen cabinet of Mr. President and APC's Party Structure which is about to rubbish the acclaimed, acknowledged, and laudable gains of the Change Administration if a fast and decisive PRESIDENTIAL ACTION was not taken immediately to nip the ugly trend in the bud with diplomacy, dexterity and political strategy, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige and the Presidential Advisers on Political and Legislative Matters are rocking the national boat of progress and MUST be sanctioned quickly before they caused irreparable damages that could rob the APC of some gains in the up-coming 2019 General Elections!

Also in that team of do-gooders is ex-Governor Adams Oshiomole, who has created more confusion in the Party since he assumed leadership as Chairman by behaving as a Labour leader!


AGITATION FOR NEW NATIONAL WAGE AND THE WARNING STRIKE!
Much as we do not have much confidence in the ability of the present crop of Labour and Union leaders to pilot Nigerian workers to the promised land, we also do not wish that government would walk into a LAND MINE OF THE RHETORIC "NO WORK NO PAY" SLOGAN OF THE TRADE DISPUTE ACT (2004), that is to be gazetted because it was ill-timed and inconspicuous! ILL-TIMED, because the FEC Meeting decision of Wednesday, 17th October, 2018, was a deliberate ruse to hamstrung LABOUR and will definitely back-fire to cause damages, especially at a time when APC needed more friends than foes! LABOUR has already reacted negatively and threatened to resist any such move!

INCONSPICUOUS because Minister Ngige displayed insincerity in handling the TRIPATITE MEETING without diplomacy but with some level of hidden agenda! He failed to acknowledge that Nigerian workers deserved even more than the initial request of N56, 000 by Labour, considering all economic indices, but deliberated more on the fact that though Federal Government was willing to negotiate the N30, 0000 figure, but that States were looking at N20, 000, which they might not even be able to afford! And the Chairman of the unconstitutional "APC Governors Forum", was so unempathetic when he said on Thursday, 18th October, 2018, after a National Economic Council (NEC), meeting in Abuja, that some States could not even afford to pay the approved N18, 000 national minimum wage approved in the year 2011, for several reasons of exigencies and would not even consider an upward review!
Nigerian Workers should not be treated as SLAVES in their own country; not by the undiplomatic Minister Ngige or by Zamfara's Governor Abdulazeez Yari who cared less whether THE LABOURER WAS WORTHY OF HIS WAGES OR NOT! Has Ngige and other political appointees ever missed their salaries and allowances since their appointments in 2015? IS THIS THE TIME FOR PROVOKING LABOUR AGITATIONS?

Is this the time TO IGNITE socio-economic/political disorder as APC LOOKS FORWARD TO WINNING THE 2019 PRESIDENTIAL, STATES AND LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS?
Has the Party forgotten that the NIGERIAN WORKERS are its own tripartite of - HUMAN CAPITAL, WORKFORCE AND THE ELECTORATE - who would jointly give the Party a record LANDSLIDE VICTORY AT THE POLLS? The President should fast-track the Labour Tripartite Committee activities and ensure that an acceptable figure was agreed upon and retrospectively paid to the workers with effect from 1st October, 2018, to redeem APC's promise of enhanced salary packages for Nigerian workers!


PEACE CORPS OF NIGERIA (PCN) BILL MUST BE RECALLED AND SIGNED INTO LAW NOW!
Can the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari afford to lose THREE MILLION VOTES OF PEACE CORPS PVC-CARRYING YOUTHS TO NINETY (90), OPPOSITION PARTIES IN THE UP-COMING 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS? The answer is NO, NO, NO! The President's Political and Legislative Aides misguided him to refuse assent to the BILL which had concurrent approval of the National Assembly (NASS), Legislators for very unacceptable and uneducated reasons that their addition to the SECURITY ARCHITECTURAL GRID, would tantamount to DUPLICATION OF DUTIES, while it is common knowledge that the entire numerical strength of the Armed Forces, Police and the Para-Military was grossly inadequate to provide adequate security for over 200 million Nigerians! They also told him that Nigeria was BROKE!
We published in our 264th Edition of 2nd September, 2018, that the President ERRED IN LAW ACCORDING TO PUBLIC OPINION POLLS for refusing assent to that strategic HUMAN CAPITAL ASSET BILL WHICH WILL COMPLEMENT THE WAR AGAINST BRIGANDAGE, INSURGENCY AND TERRORISM THROUGH CONSTANT AND REGULAR DISSEMINATION OF ADEQUATE INFORMATION AND INTELLIGENCE GATHERING, INCLUDING WHISTLE-BLOWING, TO COUNTER, EXPOSE AND CONFRONT ALL ECONOMIC SABOTEURS ACROSS THE NATION AND BRING THEM TO JUSTICE!
We have it on good authority that the Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), which had existed for over 20 years, which has movable and immovable national assets/structures acquired as an NGO in those two decades of existence, had proved its mettle as a well-organised, well-trained, well-disciplined and a highly-efficient organisation which had performed creditably as had become a HOUSE-HOLD-NAME IN NIGERIA!

IF GOVERNMENT CAN CONTINUE TO BORROW MONEY INTERNATIONALLY TO FUND SPECIAL INTERVENTION PROJECTS (SIPS), THEN, PCN MUST BE REGARDED AS A "STRATEGIC SECURITY INTERVENTION PROJECT" AND BE SO ACCORDED THAT STATUS AND BE SO EQUALLY FUNDED NOW!
The PCN, is a safety/security, people-oriented, people-friendly, PROJECT that should be strategically-positioned to serve as a double-edged SOLUTION that would quickly stem the current spate of insecurity/killings across the country, enhance the quality, fairness, credibility of the up- coming 2019 elections and also add immense VALUE TO THE VICTORY OF THE APC AT THE 2019 POLLS!


PEACE CORPS MEMBERS CAN STOP SMUGGLING AND FISH OUT ILLEGAL WEAPONS!
The National Security Council rose from a crucial meeting in Abuja on Wednesday 18th October, 2018, and expressed grave concern in respect of the stock-pilling of small arms by desperate politicians who were determined to remain relevant and in power at all cost! All security Chiefs have been put on "RED ALERT" to fish out and seize all illegal and contraband weapons to avoid further security challenges, catastrophes and blood-letting in the country!
SPECIAL UNITS OF THE 3-MILLION YOUTH-MANPOWER OF THE PEACE CORPS OF NIGERIA (PCN) CAN BE DEPLOYED FOR THE MUCH-NEEDED INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING NEEDED TO COUNTER ALL MANNER OF SMUGGLINGS THROUGH THE NATION'S POROUS BORDERS!
No further time should be wasted to bring the PCN on board as a Para-military organisation in order to boost the existing network of security forces poised to ensure PEACE in Nigeria, not only before during, and after the 2019, but 24 hours daily throughout the nooks and crannies of our vast nation and its borders!


WERE THE YOUTHS WHO ALLEGEDLY COMMITTED ELECTORAL OFFENCES DURING RECENT STATE ELECTIONS, NOT MEMBERS OF THE "NOT-TO-YOUNG-TO-RULE" CLUB?
If some Nigerian youths can still be manipulated by politicians to act as THUGS during elections, then the Not-Too-Young-To-Rule group still needed to go back to the drawing board to re-articulate their advocacy and strategies to creating avenues to guide those victims of manipulation to both educational and vocational engagements that would provide life opportunities for them to serve and not be servients!

MR. PRESIDENT, PLEASE PUT SMILES ON THE FACES OF NIGERIAN WORKERS THROUGH THE PAYMENT OF AT LEAST N 25,000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR NOW AND ALSO RECALL AND SIGN THE PEACE CORPS OF NIGERIA BILL TO IGNITE FRESH SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM IN THE 3 MILLION YOUTHS, FIT AND READY TO SERVE THEIR FATHERLAND! YOU MUST GET RID OF BAD ADVISERS AND CONSOLIDATE ON YOUR SPECIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES (SIP), GAINS TODAY! "A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE"!




I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08098194390. 08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.