Unpaid Salaries: NLC to stage massive protest in Kwara, Osun, others defaulting states
- Mojirade Durodola
- Aug 17, 2015
- 1 min read
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) may have concluded to stage massive protest in states owing workers backlog of salaries any moment from now, National Pilot, has gathered.
Out of 36 states, about 12 owed workers to the tune of over N110bn, while in some of these states, local government workers were also owed.
Some of the affected states are Osun, Rivers, Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Ondo, Plateau, Benue, and Bauchi.
This medium, however, gathered over the weekend that the NLC’s National Executive Council led by Comrade Ayuba Waba, at its meeting on 30th July, 2015, held in Abuja, reportedly resolved to stage the protest in all the defaulting states to press home for the payment of workers’ salaries
‘’At our NEC meeting in Abuja on July 30, it was unanimously agreed that protest should be staged in all states where our members are being owed backlog of salaries. The proposed protest is expected to be massive as all the state’s activities will be grounded while it lasts.
‘’Our members are suffering for what they worked for and it seems governments in those defaulting states are not willing to pay the owed salaries. But, we as a union, will not accept this act of insolent’’, a NEC member told our reporter last night.
When contacted, Chairman, Kwara State chapter of NLC, Comrade Yekini Agunbiade, confirmed the planned protest, adding, “there will be protests in all the states owning salaries".
“If Kwara State Government fails to offset its workers' salaries, Kwara State chapter of Labour Congress will also protest," he added.
Agunbiade, however, disclosed that the congress had not concluded on the date to stage the protest.
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