ACARP Celebrates International Workers/May Day
... Eulogize Workers Sacrifices
Access to Advocacy and Rights of the People (ACARP) on this auspicious occasion of International Workers/May Day celebrates with workers in Nigeria, for their relentless efforts, and unflinching sacrifices as oil that lubricates the wheel/engine, which continue to propel and move the nation forward.
Workers in Nigeria through their commitment and zeal, toils day and night in ensuring they keep the nation's economy afloat from a comatose state, while being underappreciated by the ruling class who fritters away our commonwealth without due recognition of the goose that lays the golden eggs.
ACARP acknowledges the working class welfare and conditions has not been adequately addressed by the present government and previous ones, who failed to make life meaningful for workers, after promises made in terms of due minimum wage are not kept, despite the unassailable fact workers are committed to their duties but ACARP assure their (workers) sweat and pain would not be in vain.
Nigerian workers are victims of the ruling class deliberate anti workers policies and programs, which subject them to undeserved, untoward suffering and hardship, which pauperized them, in spite of the obvious fact that they are working like elephant and eat like an ant; the height of callousness and insensitivity on the part of the people at the helms of affairs over the plight of workers.
In ACARP, as we join Nigerian workers in today's celebration of International Workers Day/May Day, which does not even call for celebration or worth celebrating because of workers plight and condition in Nigeria, we are hopeful and not despondent that all hope is not lost, while in no distant future, workers would be recognized, honoured, appreciated and celebrated in Nigeria.
ACARP in solidarity with Nigerian workers hereby call on the Federal, State and Local Government to demand and immediately do the following:
*Immediate payment of the agreed minimum wage to all strata of workers in Nigeria without hesitation or delay.
*Upward review of the existing minimum wage to a living wage to make workers monthly take home adequate and sufficient.
*Prompt payment of workers wages and renumeration as at when due, to avoid subjecting them to underserved suffering and hardship.
*Honouring and meeting with all the terms and conditions of workers in all the documented agreement entered into with the Government at large.
*Continuous training and retraining of Nigerian workers and exposure to international norms of working conditions at government expense, for quality services and more productivity.
Today May 1st, 2026, ACARP wishes Nigerian workers and across the globe happy celebration of today's International Workers Day.
E - SIGNED.
Advocate Akintunde Adedeji,
Lead Advocate, ACARP.
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