Workers’ Day: Sylva salutes labour, says better days ahead

Nathan Tamarapreye, Yenagoa

Chief Timipre Sylva, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa has commemorated with Nigerian workers on the occasion of this year’s Worker’s Day Celebrations.

In a statement issued on Sunday ahead the May ceremonies, Sylva described workers as the ‘genuine fulcrum of industrialization, of growth and of all-round development’

“There is totally a need for us to take a day and appreciate those who are sweating it out to keep our country functional. To appreciate the humanity, the selflessness that is innate, that is fundamental to every worker’

“Society’s growth, history has shown, is infinitely reliant on teamwork, dignity and variety of labour. From the Fisherman to the Farmer, the manual day-labourer to the banker, the hairdresser and the civil servant down to the POS operative: there is an enormous level of personal sacrifice in between.

“Working conditions may not always be perfect and sometimes work environments could be toxic and salaries may not tally with realities, but there is still a warmness of heart when one sees Nigerians working with zeal and enthusiasm. For there is that belief that Nigeria is a nation in the works and is on course to get even better,” Sylva said

On Bayelsa scenarion, Sylva felicitates with Bayelsa workers and commends their faith in the state in spite of the Dickson/Diri nightmarish governments that have, for more than a decade now, underutilised the depth of talents in the workforce and deliberately, continually degraded workers’ welfare.

Sylva empathised and sympathises with Bayelsa workers for the sub-human conditions they have been subjected to by a government starkly unaware of the responsibilities of a government.

The Former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources charges pensioners in the state, whose payments have been irregular to hold fort as the light of progress is set to shine on them and all Bayelsa people.