Refuse collectors, waste disposers and streets sweepers employed by the Ekiti State government have called on Governor Ayo Fayose to pay them their September 2014 salary arrears.
They are owed N10,000 for September 2014, which was outstanding before Fayose assumed office.
Fayose, shortly after, reduced their pay to N5,900 but they are urging the governor to restore their N10,000 monthly wage.
They are agitating for the September 2014 arrears having learnt the government paid primary school teachers arrears for the same month and year (September 2014) about three weeks ago.
One of the sweepers, who spoke with The Nation yesterday, said the N5,900 was no longer sustainable in the face of economic realities.
She said: “Last year, when the bailout fund was paid, we raised a delegation to meet with the commissioner for Environment, who told us that government was yet to access the fund.
“The commissioner told us that if the governor collected another tranche of the bailout fund, they will pay our outstanding N10,000 September pay, which was later reduced to N5,900 by the governor shortly after he came into office.
“We urge the governor to restore our monthly wages to N10,000 because there is nothing we can do with N5,900 in a month. It is too small to take care of our families.”