COVID-19: CDWR OYO STATE CONTINUES ITS PUBLIC SENSITISATION ON DEMANDS TOWARDS AN EFFECTIVE CONTAINMENT OF COVID-19 SPREAD IN THE STATE
COVID-19: CDWR OYO STATE CONTINUES ITS PUBLIC SENSITISATION ON DEMANDS TOWARDS AN EFFECTIVE CONTAINMENT OF COVID-19 SPREAD IN THE STATE
It was another successful intervention again on Saturday 25th, April 2020 within and around Mokola Roundabout, Ibadan. After a brief meeting with Eleven(11) comrades, including new members, in attendance the Campaign for Democratic and Workers Right (CDWR), Oyo State Chapter, continued its public sensitisation and campaign on the list of demands that trade unions and the public must continue to place on the Makinde-led Government towards an effective containment against the ravaging coronavirus.
Amidst the growing mass anger against leadership misrepresentation that is constantly bedeviling the Oyo state people especially with the window-dressing approach the State Government is employing in combating the virus, the ordinary people still took time with us. They expressed how they are being ignored and denied palliatives by both the State and Federal Government.
The public audience and acceptance which we gained through patience and friendly gesture afforded us the opportunity to further explain to them our aims and objectives as an organization. More than a thousand copies of leaflets in English and Yoruba were circulated.
The intervention was adjourned around 5:30pm and will be continued on the 1st of May, 2020, at the Challenge area of Ibadan, Oyo State.
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Below is the leaflet:
FOR EFFECTIVE CONTAINMENT OF COVID-19 SPREAD IN OYO STATE, HERE ARE THE DEMANDS WE MUST FIGHT FOR AS A PEOPLE FOR ADEQUATE PROTECTION AND DEFENCE OF OUR INTERESTS:
(1) A lockdown of the state for 14 days in the first instance with a prior provision of financial support of N50,000 for every household and supply of food items in order to guarantee effective compliance without repression or police brutality.
(2) Payment of N100, 000 hazard allowance, provision of life insurance and safety gears for all the health care professionals and other workers on the frontline.
(3) Distribution of relief materials, including provision of free face masks, hand sanitizers and clean water for the people must be done through democratic committees that will include representatives of workers, youths, students, community including the media but not corrupt politicians and their agents.
(4) All donations of funds and relief materials must be subjected to public accountability such that Labour, health workers, and youth and religious organizations will be part of the control and management.
(5) For mass non-discriminatory testing.
(6) No to arbitrary arrest and assault by police, soldiers and security operatives.
(7) No to increases in electricity bill now or later.
(8) All sectors responsible for the provision of social services like education, health care must be publicly owned and adequate funded under workers and poor people democratic control such that it can be accessible to all Nigerians regardless of the economic status.
(9) Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, and United Labour Congress, ULC, must be ready to defend job and pay security.
(10) All key sectors of the economy and institutions must be subjected to public ownership under democratic control and management of the elected representatives of workers and the poor.
FEW THINGS WE MUST DO AS A PEOPLE IF WE REALLY DESIRE THAT ALL THESE DEMANDS MUST BE MET ARE AS FOLLOWS:
(1) Form an Action Committee in your community or workplace to enforce effective compliance with safety rules and stage walkout or strike where necessary to press for our demands.
(2) For the self-organization of the working masses and youths to check unjustifiable price increases and ensure that all relief materials are distributed without any forms of discrimination.
(3) Organize yourself in your community or workplace to join and help build a mass working masses’ party like Socialist Party of Nigeria, SPN, to struggle for a workers’ and poor peoples’ government with socialist policies.
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