Comrade Olumba Maduabuchukwu Shines at ITF Regional Conference in Tanzania
Comrade Maduabuchukwu and a foreign counterpart during the workshop in Tanzania
Comrade Olumba Maduabuchukwu Shines at ITF Regional Conference in Tanzania
By Success Okezie
The recently conceded International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) Youth Regional Conference held for some member African countries in Dar Es Salam, Tanzania, had Comrade Buchi of the Seafarers Unit, Maritme Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MWUN) as its sole representative.
Amongst the contingent in Tanzania are Comrade Mohamed Kaneh, Sierra Leone; Comrade Sahada Al Hassan, Ghana; Comrade Victoria Michongwo, Malawi; amongst others.
The International Transport Workers Federation workshop was held at the Ramada Wyndham Hotel, Dar Es Salam, Tanzania. It was reported that amongst all the participants of the Maritme Regional Young Workers’ workshop, the sole representative of the Maritme Workers’ Union of Nigeria came out in flying colours at the end of the conference on evaluation.
On Olumba’s return from Dar Es Salam, he was warmly received by the leadership of the Union under the aegis of the Union’s President-General, Comrade Francis Bunu Abi, who said young Comrades in the Union should be exposed to such trainings as that would be the real target of leaving a better Union for the upcoming generation Union leaders. He further explained that similar trainings for our young Comrades will be a continuum; in fact an exercise that has come stay in the Maritme Workers’ Union of Nigeria.
The trained Maritme Administrator, Labour Activist and Veteran Sailor says the only way we can leave a better legacy behind is by engaging the youthful comrades in the Union with strategic courses, trainings, workshops and conferences of various dimensions such as the recently concluded workshop in Tanzania.
Comrade Olumba Maduabuchukwu thanked the leadership of the Union for the opportunity given him to attend the workshop in Tanzania; saying that the conference was indeed an eye opener to the new knowledge he just acquired, aside meeting with other intelligent young African Comrades making waves in their various Unions across Africa.
Comrade Maduabuchukwu also described the Facilitators as wonderful, stressing that the Facilitators who took them during the period of the workshop were excellent, instructive, intelligent, educative and morally sound. The young Comrade Charles from MWUN in Nigeria also said that he learned a lot from the Facilitators believing that the lessons assimilated from the conference would remain indelible in his life time and would help him in advancing his cause as Maritme Labour leader.
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