Wahab Goodluck

Wahab Omorilewa Goodluck (11 July 1923 – 10 September 1991) was the founding President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). During the Olusegun Obasanjo administration in the 1970s, he was barred from trade unionism along with Michael Imoudu, Samuel Bassey and a few others. Quotes I can remember very well we attended an Arabic school. We all carried our wooden slates to school and wrote with black ink. We were taught to read and write the Arabic alphabets and to learn by heart, portions of the Koran. Some of the teachers or Alfas were vicious. They beat us with snaky whips or sometimes with knotted twine tied to a cane. And when you were unable to recite portions of the Koran, by Jove, you would have it on your head or back.” The dismissal notices you have received are so many scraps of paper. You can keep them as souvenirs to show your children and remind them that today is a turning point in the history of this country I made the statement in 1970 during Gowon’s era when it was apparent and clear to the ordinary man on the street that the number of millionaires among the militarymen were more than those in the condemned civilian regime of Tafawa Balewa. As a result of this, it was my candid view that if a disciplined body like the army could fall into disrepute to the extent that everybody became fed up, it was felt that, if the bourgeois civilians had tried, the bourgeois army had also tried and they have failed, why not the workers turn. We were arrested but the strike went on because it was fully planned. We were taken to court but we were allowed bail. We came out and started to organize the strike in ear nest...All civil servants were to be given sack paper. We told them if they were given, they should keep themas souvenirs for the future. But government said if they (workers) do not go back within forty eight hours, it would dispense with all their services. We replied government that within forty eight hours, it should resign." External links Category:1923 births Category:1991 deaths Category:Activists from Nigeria