When you have bad leaders and followers then progress and productivity would be very difficult to come considering that leaders are selected from the pool of poor followers.
The Federal Ministry of Labor has spent the better part of the last 7 and half years trying to resolve strike actions embarked upon by labor unions who have no business going on strike in the first place if there was a responsible minister in office.
Dr. Christopher Ngige, the Minister for Labor and Productivity in Nigeria, has been a major catastrophe to the ministry he heads causing the ministry to be unproductive under his tenure as the minister.
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Ngige has succeeded in forcing the hands of several professional bodies to go on needless strike after such unions must have written to the Labor ministry requesting that the agreements reached between the unions and the ministry be acted upon.
Workers have enjoyed the pleasure of staying at home more than being at work, simply because a visionless and unfocused person was appointed as minister for labor and productivity.
In most cases, the problem leading to strike action bothers around welfare, prompt payment of salaries, or salary structure upgrade while in some cases it is just to improve the working conditions of the professionals who have found themselves in such fields.
Regular strike actions from professional bodies such National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), among others, have made it very glaring that the Minister of Labor and Productivity Dr. Chris Ngige, has no idea on how to move the ministry forward.
He is more of a problem to the workers he is supposed to be representing in that ministry. He has perfected the art of hiding behind one finger and double-crossing workers, thinking to himself that the workers are as gullible as himself.
The Minister has perfected the art of running to court to seek court injunctions against workers whom you have incensed to anger with your riotous speech after failing to abide by agreements.
Ngige is nothing short of a square peg in a round hole, after calling off an eight months strike, ASUU might just decide to pick up where it stopped if the government continues to pay their salaries like it is doing.
After causing more pain, harm, and injury to the health of the workers in the country, one wonders what a person like Ngige is still doing in office but you don’t have to wonder for long because this is Nigeria where leaders die in office, just as unproductive and irresponsible leaders lack the gumption to turn in their resignation and vacate public offices.
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Professionals who have worked under very harsh conditions in Nigeria are now migrating to other countries where working conditions are better, where take-home pay can take you home, where there is room for growth and so many opportunities abound yet the
Labor contributes productively to the growth of the economy, the labor is the backbone of any economic growth but under Ngige labor has been very unproductive through several industrial actions of various unions