Occupy Nigeria: Make it a "rolling strike" to Ensure Victory

Strike for a few days, rest and go to work a few days; resume the strike, as long as it takes for the Federal Government of Nigeria to obey the will of the people

[Global Commentary: Nigeria]

It is very good that labor and civil society organizations called this strike and that the Nigerian people have responded splendidly.

However, at the end of a week, the need has arisen to change it to a rolling strike; strike for a few days, rest and go to work a few days and then resume the strike, and repeat indefinitely for as long as it takes for the Federal Government of Nigeria to obey the demonstrated will of the people.

The government can win, and seems to count on winning, simply by hanging tough for
a month; by which time hunger would have killed the strike. After all, how many people have stored enough food to last another week? How many can go another week without earning money or taking money from their bank? That is the Achilles heel of this strike. And if it is not eliminated this weekend, the strike will collapse and the anti-people system will triumph and survive. That is a hard fact of life we must accept, and adjust our tactics accordingly.

We must bear in mind that, as Prof. Tam David West, a former Petroleum Minister, and others have exposed on TV, this fuel subsidy thing is simply a racket to fleece the public, a kind of 419. And the government seems determined to keep emptying the pockets of the poor millions into the fat bank accounts of a few rich racketeers. If the people want to win –and why not?– this indefinite strike has to be amended into a rolling strike so it can go on for as long as it takes to achieve the people’s victory.

I urge the strike leaders to take note. This strike should be made truly indefinite by amending it into a rolling strike so it can go on for even a year if the FGN remains hard hearted, anti-people and unreasonable.

The administration would do well to ponder the principle that a government whichrefuses to submit to the will of the people, its sovereign, is a rebel government and, by its own rebellion, legitimizes and invites upon itself the rebellion of the people.


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