Kogi Government, NLC in fresh row over salary arrears

Yuceelanda.com


The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Kogi chapter,
has said that the state workforce would not
participate in the fresh screening as ordered by
the government.
The state chairman of NLC, Mr Onuh Edoka,
made the statement on Thursday in Lokoja while
addressing a press conference.
He gave the government up till Feb. 10 to pay
the Sept. 2015 salaries of workers or face
industrial action.
Edoka accused the government of insincerity in
its dealing with workers.
He said that the issue of fresh screening of
workers before payment of their September
salaries did not come up for discussion during
the Feb. 2 meeting it held with representatives
of government.
“We are shocked and surprised that Kogi State
government can back stab workers.
“We agreed on the payment of one month salary
out of four months being owed us out of honour
and respect for the governor.
“The issue of staff screening was not discussed.
“Workers have been down for four months; to
subject them to any screening now will
compound their hardship, “Edoka said.
He said that though labour was not opposed to
government’s effort to identify ghost workers and
curb corruption, it should provide relief to the
workers by paying them their one month salary
as agreed with the NLC.
He said that pensioners in the state would not
participate in the screening scheduled to
commence on Feb. 8, on the ground that they
were too weak to stand the rigours of the
exercise.
Edoka warned that organised labour would
tolerate obnoxious and anti-workers actions from
the government and advised Gov. Yahaya Bello
to be wary of bad advice from certain quarters.
(NAN)