Tribute to staff association leaders of yester-year
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Up in arms: BOFEPUSU members during the 2011 public service strike
A dream of seeing their conditions of service improved, and a dream of seeing Public Service employees desisting from oppressing each other and oppressing themselves. Indeed, I have a dream of ensuring that the exploitation of union members by their leaders come to an end.
I believe this is the dream of visionary leaders and the new class consciousness movement.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...