Labour tasks Buhari on 2014 conference report

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(Nigeria) As controversy rages over the 2014 National Conference report, organised labour has urged President Muhammed Buhari  to "be statesmanlike, be pragmatic in accepting the principles contained in the 2014 National Conference report for implementation while fine tuning the detail policies/findings for national development." 
Isa Aremu blamed Nigeria's woes on absence of "development agenda" urging that the presidency should go back in time and look at past reports of Visions 2010, 2020 and consolidate them with  2014 National Conference report.
According to him, governance should move beyond the "present adhockism to informed policy choices and implementations strategies".
Speaking at a career development and mentoring Lecture organised by SMILES (Sending Message by Impacting Lives with Enabling Support) youth Initiative held at Zamani College Malali, Kaduna,  Aremu who is also the General Secretary of the National Union of Textile Workers said Nigeria cannot engage meaningfully with countries like China which has sustainable development agenda without its own development agenda. Development does not come through friendship "but self national interests in National plans,” he said.
He observed that China engages with Africa within the context of its 13th Five-Year Plan 2016-2020 for Economic and Social Development noting, that “Buhariconomics must also be rooted in consolidated Visions 2010, 2020 and reports of 2014 National Conference, not what he called "current disparate uncoordinated ad-hoc deals by government agencies" with Chinese government.
The labour leader also decried the current face off between the Presidency and the National Assembly.
"Watching the presidency and the National Assembly leadership in recent times exchanging star-words on who is right or wrong over critical issues of probity and accountability cases already in the courts of law is disheartening" he noted. 
Aremu urged cooperation between the presidency and the National Assembly members in the interest of the nation adding that they "must learn to be less hard on themselves but be hard on the national problems that include perennial shortage of electricity, low capacity utilization, falling Naira value, insecurity, entrenched corruption and worsening poverty.
"Nigerians" he said voted for change from underdevelopment to development not exchanges of "bad mouths" between the executive and the legislators.
Aremu had advised hundreds of students drawn from over 15 public secondary schools to embrace dignity of labour quoting a rendition of an age long Nigerian poem that "Work is the antidote for poverty" urging them to be self reliant in life,  Work hard and work smart."

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