Struggle not over fuel subsidy alone – NMA

 
Organised labour on Monday drew the ire of the Nigeria Medical Association, Edo State chapter, over the suspension of the anti-fuel subsidy protests.
The NMA, which in a statement said it received the news of stay of action with shock, accused organised labour of hijacking its initiative.
In the statement by its chairman, Dr. Philip Ugbodaga, the Edo NMA said labour had effectively truncated a revolution in the making.
The statement read in part, “It has come to our notice that the NLC/TUC leadership has suspended street protests and rallies across the country.
“This has come as a very rude shock to the Nigerian Medical Association. We are however not surprised.
“The initiative for the present actions by the Nigerian people was by civil society organisations which became hijacked by labour that now seeks to trade away our most potent weapon.”
The association said it would meet with partners in the Coalition to Save Nigeria to determine its next line of action.
The NMA added, “We are pained, we are heavily pained, but the struggle continues. The struggle was never about fuel prices alone.
“The struggle was about the right of the Nigerian people to determine how we are being ruled or misruled, how we are being led or misled, how our resources are being managed or mismanaged, how our common wealth is being appropriated or misappropriated, about the national question, and about why our country could be so rich, its leaders so rich, yet its people will be so poor.”
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