Baba Aye's

That the ruling class in Nigeria is blindly corrupt is not a surprising attribute. That Obasanjo's self-righteousness was nothing but the rags of hypocrisy which he so insolently swapped round his ugly frame as did his nauseatingly sychophantic lieutenants like Rufai, Ribadu, Oby and Ngozi, is not something that should catch any reasonable and reasoning Nigerian offguard. I strongly believ as does the NLC that the probes must not however end as mere circus shows. There must be instituted a judicial commission of inquiry: fine. Beyond this though, the challenge for revolutionary activists in Nigeria is to organise and build workers' power as an alternative to the corrupt capitalist elites' power and democratically win over the reigns of governance of society in the pursuit of social change. Baba Aye

The Nigeria Labour Congress led a mass procession against corruption in high places today, at Abuja. The procession which started at the ever-busy Berger round-about was to demand that the probes of several sectors under the watch of the past Obasanjo administration which have revealed the misappropriation and mis-managemet of billions of dollars (in the power sector alone, not less than 16 billion dollars!), do not end as the entertainment circuses that similar diversionary smearings have ended up as. The NLC demanded for a judicial commission of inquiry to be set-up and for indicted (ex-)public officers to be prosecuted. Several socialist, pro-democratic and partisan organisations such as the Abuja Socialist Collective, Democratic Socialist Movement, United Action for Democracy and the Labour Party insisted that the fight against corruption must be tied to the struggle for social change for it to have any indepth meaning. The procession submitted a petition to the Economic and Financ...