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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)
has urged Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose to immediately pay workers in
the state their salaries.
In an open letter, President of the
Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba mentioned four major reasons for which
the workers have been on strike to include non-payment of five months salaries
and pensions, non-implementation of promotion for workers, controversy of
workers’ verification, and refusal of the state government to disclose its
internal revenue.
Read letter below:
REQUEST FOR INTERVENTION
I convey to you the compliments of
the Nigeria Labour Congress as well request your personal intervention in the
strike action by workers in Ekiti State.
The issues that led to this strike
action are well known to you and include the following:
- Non-implementation of promotion report since 2014;
- Issues around staff verification exercise in 2015 and
- Refusal of government disclose the actual monthly IGR.
Your Excellency, we are not
unconcerned about the prevailing socio-economic challenges in the polity. In
our view, however, this does not constitute an acceptable rationale for owing
workers and pensioners for so long. A Labourer, the Holy Books, tell us,
deserves his wages. Stripped of his wages, he is reduced to a slave without
rights or privileges.
In the instant case, the workers and
pensioners in the State have been pulverized into submission due to the default
in the payment of their salaries and pensions to the extent that they are
unable to perform their obligations to God, Man and the State.
We believe this painful situation
could be minimized, if not entirely reduced, if government gives consideration
to managing the cost of governance, raising the IGR profile and appropriately
applying the bail-out funds given by the Federal Government.
Your Excellency, we urge you to
bring this strike action speedily to an end by commencing the process of
payment and establishing a platform for dialogue at which the leadership of the
workers at the state level could be availed of what accrues to the coffers of
the state monthly.
We are prepared to sit with you and
our members to broker the necessary peace in the interest of industrial harmony
and general well-being of the state.
While we await your intervention,
please accept the assurances of our highest esteem.
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