Couldn’t Labour have given more time for the government to respond to its demands? Is wage increase the only solution to economic woes workers are facing? Couldn’t Labour have made other demands like calling for the scrapping of one of the two arms of the National Assembly to save costs in this trying time? How about Labour asking government to provide workers with essential foodstuff at subsidised prices?
The year was 1996. I had just been appointed Editor of The PUNCH. The…
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