By Denzel Chukwudinma
Adams Aliyu
Oshiomhole is a popular name to the poor and indigent in Nigeria
*Adams Oshiomole
Oshiomhole came to
limelight when, as a labour leader, he aggressively fought the anti-people
policies of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo. Before then, Oshiomhole had
been in the trenches fighting for the rights of the Nigerian workers. He was
once a threat to factories that treat their workers in inhuman manner.
He was everywhere at
the time. I remember when he visited Texlon on LSDPC Compound in Amuwo-Odofin
in 1995 to issue a warning to the owners of that company, to desist from
“casualisation” of their workers and stop every inhuman treatment.
Workers saw
Oshiomhole as the hero they had waited for to salvage them from the claws of
their ‘taskmasters’ who wanted them to work without pay. Oshiomhole was a
compassionate, amiable and respected leader at that time.
