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  •  ILO: $150b generated from forced labour globally

    About $150 billion is made annually from forced labour across the world with around 152 million children engaged in the act, the International Labour Organisation, (ILO), has said

    This revelation is contained in a document titled: “Alliance 8.7 at a glance: joining forces globally to end forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking  and child labour”, obtained from the world body in Abuja.

    According to the document about 88 million boys and 64 million girls are engaged in child labour across the world, with 40 million people living in modern slavery.

    The document also disclosed that 24.9 million people are engaged in all forms of forced labour, 15.4 million in forced marriage, 4.1 million in state imposed forced labour, 16 million engaged in forced labour exploitations and 4.8 million persons engaged in forced sexual exploitation globally.

    It said the figures tell a devastating story of human rights abuses on a vast scale, stressing that in the area of forced labour, modern slavery and human trifficking, there is little evidence of reduction in the incidence since the first statistics were gathered in 2005.

    It, however, said there are signs of progress in efforts at reducing child labour with the number decreasing by about 90 million since year 2000, lamenting however, the slow pace of progress being made. It added that lessons from the success in reducing child labour have the potential to be applied to other issues.

    The document said while Nigeria has made modest progress in recent times towards ending forced labour, human trafficking, modern slavery and child labour, there are still many gaps and challenges which require the concerted efforts of all stakeholders of the objectives to be achieved.

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    It said: “Child labour, forced labour and trafficking in persons exist in Nigeria and can be found in almost all stages of supply chains in agriculture, mining, construction, manufacturing, retailing, service provision and even households and on the streets.

    “Nigeria has a high number of economcally active children, as well as those involved in the worst forms of child labour and harzardous work. International Labour Organisation estimates that about 25 per cent of Nigeria’s 80 million children under the age of 14 are engaged in economic activities. About half of this population are children exploited as child labourers and working in hazardous situations such as victims of child trafficking, domestic work, sex work, drug peddling and hawking.”

    The document also acknowledged the fact that the government has created an enabling environment for the fight against child labour through the ratification and adoption of some international conventions related to the elimination of child labour and the development of national laws and policies

    However, ILO Country Director,   Dennis Zulu, who  spoke at a consultative meeting and launch of the Alliance 8.7 targeted at ending forced labour, paid tribute to the government for efforts being made to eradicate all forms of child labour and forced labour.

     

    Zulu acknowledged the fact that the attainment of target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goal was a heculean task, adding that it was gladening to note the commitment of the government to achieve the target, adding that the launch of the Alliance 8.7 was a realisation of the pledge made by the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour held in Buenos Aires in November 2018.

    “At that conference, Nigeria indicated interest in being a Pathfinder Country and this, you will agree with me, is a giant stride in the achievement of SDG 8.7, given its position as Africa’s most populous nation and its impact at the regional level.”

    Zulu said “Sustainable Development Goal 8, popularly known as SDG 8, places social justice and decent work for all at the heart of Agenda 2030 which sets an ambitious trajectory towards sustainable and inclusive growth and development.

    “SDG 8 has several targets. Target 8.7 is particularly challenging. It calls on us to take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking; and eliminate the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers. In addition, by 2025 we must end child labour in all its forms.

    “Achieving such an ambitious goal requires an unprecedented level of mobilization of partnership, which harnesses energy, resources and strategic and political acumen to a maximum degree.

    “Ending child labour human trafficking, and forced labour will require integrated thinking, coordinated actions, effective policy making and efficient use of resources in a manner we have never seen before.

    “Alliance 8.7 is intended to realize extraordinary and ground-breaking ways of bringing multiple actors together for concerted and focused actions to help countries to achieve the goal and targets set forth in SDG 8 and other related SDGs”

    He expressed hope that the launch and national consultation of Alliance 8.7 in Nigeria will lay the foundation for a Viable national alliance against child labour and trafficking in persons, a phenomenon that has unfortunately engulfed most states in Nigeria.

    He said: “I know that the establishment of this Alliance will be beneficial on many levels, as it will allow stakeholders at the National, States, Local Government and community levels to strengthen their efforts in  the fight against child labour and trafficking.

    “But it will also help to share experience that could foster Significant progress and generate positive results in the fight against this scourge.”

    He stressed that “Nigeria has signed, retitled and domesticated a number of United Nations and ILO Conventions that are instrumental in the fight against forced labour, child labour and trafficking in persons, including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour and the Minimum Age Convention.

    “In addition, it has made significant achievements in strengthening the legal and policy framework and the enabling environment for the achievement of target 8.7. The government has developed a National Policy on Child Labour, a National Action Plan for Elimination of Child Labour (2013-2017) and the Hazardous Child Labour List (2013).

    “Further, the 2003 Child Rights Act consolidates all laws relating to children into a single legislation and specifies the duties and obligations of government, parents and other authorities, organizations and bodies. And it is worth noting that Nigeria was the first country in West Africa to adopt national legislation to deal specifically with the issue of human trafficking, the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Law Enforcement Act.

    “Despite these efforts, the National Bureau of Statistics 2017 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), shows that about 43 per cent of Nigerian children, in the age between 5 and 10, are working and about half of the working children are estimated to be engaged in child labour.

    “Children in Nigeria engage in the worst forms of child labour, including work in quarry granite and gravel, commercial sexual exploitation, and armed conflict.

    “I am certain you can relate with this as we walk down the streets of Nigeria and seeing the examples everywhere: Children working as beggars, street peddler and bus conductors for example. For those living or visiting rural areas you might find them in the artisanal gold mines and in cocoa farms. Less visible perhaps are the children working in domestic servitude. Needless to say, the urgency is there as we are being reminded every day by these examples.

    “In 2017, the ILO supported the Ministry to review the existing legal framework in the protection of working children in Nigeria and the report of this research identified loopholes in the protection of the rights of children in the workplace.

    “A good example are children within the legal working age that are working within the domestic work sector. A high rate of labour standard abuse exist in this sector and virtually no protection exists for such children, more so that Nigeria is yet to ratify the Convention 189 on domestic work.

    “At the heart of lLO’s various intervention is the Decent Work Agenda. The ILO believes that Productive employment and decent work are key elements to achieving a fair globalization and poverty reduction.

    “Government to develop the Decent work Country Programme which looks at job creation, rights at work, social protection and social dialogue, with gender equality as a crosscutting objective. I am pleased to inform you that elimination of child labour, forced labour and modem-day slavery are covered in the country’s Decent work programme.”

  • Child trafficking: ILO executes £28m project in Nigeria, four other African countries

    The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has begun a 28-million-euro project, sponsored by the Netherlands, to accelerate the fight against child labour in Nigeria and four other African countries.

    This was announced by the Ambassador of Netherlands to Nigeria, Marion Kappeyne van de Coppello, on the side line of a two-day workshop on the project in Abuja on Friday.

    The project, Acceleration of Action in the Elimination of Child Labour in Supply Chains in Africa (ACCEL), was also being carried out in Mali, Malawi, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt and Uganda.

    The ambassador said the project was a long term one which focuses on the causes of child labour.

    “Netherlands is financing this project; it is actually a project that is going to be undertaken in five different countries in Africa; Nigeria is one of them.

    “The total funding for this project from the Netherlands for these five countries is 28 million euros.

    “It is a long-term project and is expected to take at least five years to reach the results that are expected.

    “We think that a child should have the opportunity to go to school, to be a child but we also understand, we had the same situation in Europe two centuries ago, that it is not just child labour.

    “It has to do with the whole of the economy, with the social situation, the economic situation of the parents and so forth,” she said.

    She said that ILO was trusted by the government of Netherlands to facilitate the project in African countries.

    “It is a complicated project; that is why we are happy that the ILO is taking this up, they have a good track record on joining employers, employees and state authorities to work together.

    “I also see here in this workshop, preparing the work for Nigeria that all the stakeholders are present and that is collaborative effort that will bring the most chance of success,” she said.

    Mr. Dennis Zulu, Director, ILO Country Office for Nigeria, said the organisation had been working with the federal government to develop a policy on child labour.

    Zulu explained that the project would focus on the supply chains in cocoa and mining in the country and work with local authorities to facilitate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    Addressing newsmen, ILO Chief Technical Adviser, ACCEL Africa, Mr. Minoru Agasawara, said the project would work with stakeholders according to the priorities identified in the different countries.

    “We are looking at legal framework, policy framework, capacity building, awareness raising, community mobilisation and also working with employers,” he said.

     

  • ILO seeks protection for workers as technology erases jobs

    INCREASING level of technology is erasing jobs, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), has alerted.

    Raising the concern, ILO’s Country Director for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Danis Zulu, said that the global technological advancement was creating a major challenge for the organisation in its efforts at ensuring industrial harmony.

    Zulu said in an interview in Abuja that with technology fast replacing workers in most parts of the world, ILO must begin to look for ways of ensuring that workers are not denied their rights by employers.

    He said the organisation was conscious of the fact that with advancement in technology, some workers may have to work from home, while the banking sector is fast replacing some workers with ATM and internet banking.

    He said: “One of the things that we are saying which will be very evident in the future is that the relationship that we know today between an employer and employee will changed because of technology, demographic trends, and other development indices,  like people working from home.

    “So, the question is how do we respond to those issues, in terms of the protection of workers right is concerned? If you are a worker working from home with no direct interaction with the employer, how do we ensure that either party is happy with the relationship?

    “We really have to look forward and prepare ourselves for the changes that would happen. As you see already, in a number of countries, banks are laying off employees because of technology. We have ATM and you can do online banking.

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    “How do we support member states to ensure that these workers who lose their jobs get their rights? How do we ensure that we prepare the young ones as they go into acquiring education that will equipped them for the future of work?

    “So, as the world of work revolves, we can only do much in ensuring that the four strategies which made up decent work are met. These include protecting rights, ensuring equitable access to employment opportunities for both men and women, ensuring that social protection are available to all workers and lastly and very importantly, the concept of social dialogue in the discussion between employees and employers as far they agreed to what sort of relationships that they should have.

    “It’s a huge task and it will take just the ILO or it social partners in Nigeria or the government to achieve a perfect world of work. But we can only strive to do as much as we can.

    “Like I said, it’s a growing problem, especially the growing rate of unemployment, child labour problem and in some cases, increased levels of discrimination of persons with disabilities, women worker, among others.

    “We need to work on those specific issues if we are going to ensure that we meet our aspirations and this can only be done collectively. We need to look at the law for instance. You know that in Nigeria, law making takes a bit of time.

    “I think it is important to work towards a new legislation that will actually reflect the times in bringing into bear the new trends in the world of work because only then can we guarantee the protection of workers right in the country. That is the only way we also can guarantee that the interest of the employers in the private sector is also protected.”

  • FG seeks ILO’s cooperation on decent work

    The Federal Government has sought the support and cooperation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in the provision of decent work for Nigerian workers.

    Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, William Alo who made the call when the ILO Country Director in Nigeria, Dannis Zulu, visited him described ILO as a dependable partner of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.

    While congratulating the global body for its centenary celebration and 60 years of existence in Nigeria, the Permanent Secretary said: “ILO and the ministry have had a long, robust and smooth relationship spanning a period of 60 years.

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    “The ministry has benefitted from the relationship in many ways and that has made the country maintain her pride of place in the comity of nations on labour issues. This has also gained the country the position of a member of the Governing Board of ILO, which is a testimony that Nigeria has paid its dues in respect of labour issues”.

  • ILO: decent work vital to development

    DEcent work is key to achieving sustainable development, social justice and foundation for lasting peace, International Labour Organisations (ILO) Director-General, Guy Ryder has said.

    Ryder, who stated this in his message  to governments across the world at the United Nations (UN)  “World Day of Social Justice”, re-echoed ILO’s mission to the world.

    He said: “If you want peace and development, work for social justice,” adding that for a century, ILO has pursued its mandate to promote social justice through the world of work.

    He reminded world leaders and policy makers of the avoidable economic depression that may befall the society should the world continue to turn deaf ear to ILO calls and warnings. He said: “Undoubtedly, there has been much economic and social progress. Yet the fruits are often unevenly distributed.”

    He continued: “Many people have been lifted out of poverty but many are in danger of falling back. Technology has generated jobs, opened up opportunities and alleviated drudgery, yet billions are still barely surviving in the informal economy. Many societies are scarred by deep social and economic divides; populations are torn apart by war and conflict.”

    The ILO, he said, will continue to be an advocate for the rights and standards that underpin decent work as well as the policies that foster decent work world over, noting that for 100 years the ILO has pursued its mandate to promote social justice through the world of work.

    “Undoubtedly, there has been much economic and social progress. Yet the fruits are often unevenly distributed. Many people have been lifted out of poverty, but many are in danger of falling back. Technology has generated jobs, opened up opportunities and alleviated drudgery, yet billions are still barely surviving in the informal economy.

    “Many societies are scarred by deep social and economic divides; populations are torn apart by war and conflict. And in a changing world of work, established relationships, norms and standards are being called into question and fundamental rights at work are still to be fully realised,” Ryder said.

    He said it is no less certain today than in 1919 that lasting peace and stability must be built on a foundation of sustainable development and social justice.

  • ILO asks countries to ratify labour conventions

    To mark its centenary, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called on governments to ratify at least one international labour standard in 2019.

    According to Director,  International Labour Standards Department, Corinne Vargha,  since its founding in 1919, ILO labour standards have improved the working lives of millions of people.

    She said from eliminating forced and child labour to ensuring the rights of seafarers and promoting gender equality, the 189 Conventions and 205 recommendations adopted by member states during the last 100 years have formed the bedrock of the ILO and its mandate.

    “However, many issues in the world of work remain, and with new challenges being created by globalisation and cross border activities, international labour standards are needed more than ever. Therefore, to mark its Centenary, the ILO is urging its 187-member states to ratify at least one additional ILO Convention or Protocol in 2019.

    “We hope that as many member states as possible will step up to the plate and ratify this year. Ratifications and the full application of ILO global labour standards will ultimately lift up millions of workers whose livelihoods today, like 100 years ago, are facing substantial challenges. The implementation of international labour standards ensures that no one will be left behind in the world of work,” she said

    To gauge progress towards this goal the ILO will track all 2019 ratifications in real time on a new dashboard. More than 30-member states have already made a head start, having signed Conventions or Protocols in 2019 or ratified instruments that will enter into force this year.

  • ILO to ECOWAS: adopt unified qualification for employment

    The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member countries to adopt a unified qualification framework as a yardstick to curb unemployment.

    ILO Director Mr. Dennis Zulu made the call during a two-day “Technical Regional Workshop” on National Qualification Frameworks (NQFs) in ECOWAS Region, in Abuja, during the week.

    Zulu said adopting the unified framework would create more employment as well as equip workers with both formal and informal skills to enable them work without restrictions in ECOWAS member countries. He said it would also facilitate the dialogue between the private sector and training institutions on curriculum upgrade as well as accommodate training students in different vocations while still in school.

    According to him, training undergraduates while in school would bypass retraining them by the private institution that requires their services after graduation.

    ”We have a lot of unemployed people in ECOWAS countries including Nigeria, so we need to be talking to the private sector that states the qualification they need.

    ”The private sector needs to have input in the curriculum of training institutions that want to train graduates and not the private institutions having to retrain them,’’ Zulu said.

    The National Qualification Frameworks (NQFs) was part of a new initiative to strengthen the recognition of skills and qualifications within and between ECOWAS countries, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the ECOWAS. A similar regional workshop on NQFs was held in Dakar, Senegal in June to highlight the complexity of conducting certification.

    Other areas discussed were system reforms, the necessary combination of technical, conceptual and policy actions and the importance of regional cooperation as a driver of change.

  • Picketing: MTN takes case to United Nation-ILO

    MTN Nigeria said its assets worth millions of dollars have been vandalised following the three-day picketing by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) at some of the telecommunication company’s offices across Nigerian states.

    The mobile communication company may have however considered to approach the United Nation – International Labour Organisation(ILO) to make case for an alleged display of violence, disregard for the ILO code of conduct, and vandalising of its assets in the name of picketing.

     MTN said in a statement that, NLC contravenes ILO principles concerning the right to strike section 8.1 which focuses on picketing which states;

     “Taking part in picketing and firmly but peacefully inciting other workers to keep away from their workplace cannot be considered unlawful. The case is different, however, when picketing is accompanied by violence or coercion of non-strikers in an attempt to interfere with their freedom to work; such acts constitute criminal offences in many countries.

     The requirement that strike pickets can only be set up near an enterprise does not infringe the principles of freedom of association (ibid., paras. 586 and 587).”

    The MTN statement read further that, “officials of the NLC were at the MTN offices to picket however, the protest became violent and disorganised as property within MTN premises were vandalised.

    Damaged gate at MTN office

    “Doors and gates were destroyed, several staff of the company were manhandled and in the Ikoyi head office, the MTN flag was lowered and the NLC flag hoisted in its place.

     “Critical national infrastructure across the country were breached and attempts were made to seriously compromise them like turning off the independent power plants at the Ojota switch station, Lagos.”

    Founded in 1919, the ILO’s main goal is to bring together governments, employers and workers of its member states to set labour standards, develop policies and design programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.

    Meanwhile, renowned UK based accountant and social commentator, Feyi Fawehinmi and veteran radio presenter, Jimi Disu have openely condemn the picketing.

    In his words: “As far as I am concerned, they went on a fund-raising exercise. Now it didn’t just end there, if you are going to picket a company let’s just say for all intents and purposes, does it then mean that you must go on a destroying mission?

    Broken entrance door at MTN office

    “You went in there and destroyed their properties. Here we are, our existence economically is somewhat premised on what we call foreign investment, now is this how you are going to treat companies that come?”

    The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) as well as the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has also learnt their voices.

    ALTON advised MTN Nigeria to consider preventive shutdown of network if telecoms facilities are damaged.

    Tony Ojobo, the spokesman of the NCC in a statement confirmed that on Monday night the NCC activated the MOU with NSCDC to protect the switch stations and BTSs belonging to MTN and other telecom operators.

    Tony also added that, “NCC has also briefed the security agencies on developments particularly the implications of the attempt to shut down the Ojota switch station. A collapse of the telecommunications grid is likely if these attacks on MTN and other telecom facilities are not abated.”

    Tobechukwu Okigbo, Corporate Relations Executive, MTN Nigeria reiterated that MTN has a credible position on unionism.

    He said, “We do not prevent our employees from associating amongst themselves as they deem fit and owe our employees the obligation to ensure they are not compelled to join associations. MTN supports the freedom of association as enshrined in the Nigerian Constitution.”

    All workers have rights that should be protected. We work hard to not only ensure that this is done but also to ensure that our company is a Great Place to Work. We will continue to champion our peoples’ rights, whether they are part of a union or not and work hard to minimise disruptions in service to our customers.

  • Ngige: We’re up to date on reporting Labour Standards to ILO

    The Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige yesterday denied the country was not lagging behind in submitting its report on Labour Standards to International Labour Organisation (ILO).

    Reacting to a report by a team of experts from the ILO that Nigeria was not up to date in its reports on Labour Standards, the Minister said the government constantly submits its report to the world Labour body as required.

    He however told our correspondent on phone the nation was only having difficulty in handling certain technical reports for which it sought the assistance of the ILO.

    He said: “We invited the ILO to help with technical support because there are some areas where we are having problems.

    “We invited the team you saw and they came to train our people on how to handle those technical areas.

    “The training was attended by our people (government officials), Labour and employers.

    “We now know how to handle the reports which will be submitted to the ILO latest 1st of September this year.

    “So, it will be wrong to say that we are lagging behind in reporting on Labour Standards in the country.”

    Also, Director of Press, Samuel Olowookere, in a statement quoted the minister as saying contrary to what he described as “incorrect and misleading report”, Nigeria  has been living up to expectations in discharge of all responsibilities regarding her membership of the ILO.

    The statement said: “We wish to state for the avoidance of doubt that Nigeria has never been found wanting in Labour Standards Reporting Rendition as we have never been sanctioned or brought before the plenary for reasons of failure.

    “Report rendering is work in progress hence as one report is being rendered some others will be due.

    ” It will be recalled that in 2017, Nigeria submitted reports on 10(ten) ILO Conventions as they became due, including the first report on Maritime Labour Convention, which is effectively being implemented now in collaboration with the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency(NIMASA)

    “Therefore, the statement purportedly made by an ILO Specialist in Workers Activities and curiously reported only in one of the national dailies is incorrect and should be disregarded.

    “Moreover, the non-convening of the National Labour Advisory Council which the NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba alleged in the same report as being responsible for alleged lag is not the appropriate body to assist Nigeria in being up to date in her report.”

     

  • ILO: Ngige accuses NLC of undermining national interest

    Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has said that the decision of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to report the country to the Committee on the Application of Standard of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) was done in bad faith and against the interest of the country.
    The NLC had written to the committee reporting both Kaduna and Kogi State governments and asking the ILO to send a high powered delegation to Nigeria to investigate infringements of the right of workers by the state governments.
    The report by the NLC against the two states was one of the issues discussed by the Committee on Application of Standard at the just concluded 107th session of the International Labour Organization and the decision of the committee is expected to be ready in November 2018.
    The NLC is asking the ILO to send a high powered delegation made of experts to visit the country on a fact finding mission, but the Nigerian government delegation said there was no need to send experts as the issue was already being handled by the Nigerian government.
    The Minister said in an interview in Geneva, Switzerland that the retrenchment of unqualified teachers in Kaduna State which the NLC stated  in its petition was being tackled at home and needed no mention at the international labour forum.
    He said “we don’t need to wash our dirty linen in the public. My ministry summoned both the Kaduna State Government and the Nigerian Union of Teachers and they presented their case. We know the truth and don’t need to bring such to the ILO. Some of the people disengaged  by the Kaduna State Government from the records tendered to us are not qualified teachers.
    “They don’t have the  prerequisite certificate, competence. They got smuggled into the system but we don’t need to come here tell the world that Nigerians get jobs with fake certificates . We don’t need to engage in such demarketing of the nation.”
    The Minister said based on agreement with the Kaduna State Government, about ten thousand out of the number that failed the qualification test have re-applied, and the Kaduna State has re-absolved some of them, promising to move others to others jobs. It has besides recruited more qualified teachers into the system.
    However, Deputy President of the NLC, Comrade Peters Adeyemi who represented the congress at the proceedings of the Committee on Application of Standards, said the congress took the matter to the ILO because the governors were behaving more like untouchables.
    He said: “This arbitrariness needed to be checked. We had to come here because if we cast our mind back, President Buhari, out of pain looked at governors and asked them, how can you sleep when salaries of workers remained unpaid.
    “The problem has to do with the fact that the states have become lords to themselves to the extent that all our president can do is to lament. Because he is not able to make them do what is right. Some of these bailout funds were not used for the purpose they were used for. We know that at some point in time, the EFCC was trying to follow up some of those who misused these funds, but we have not gotten any result.
    “What we are saying is that the ILO should send a high powered mission to Nigeria to assert in some of these claims. Clearly, we had to put some of these things before the international community because if, despite his efforts, the president has not been able to do what is required, maybe if it is brought to the international community, people will have reason to begin to think more reasonably that this is a disgrace to our country.
    “How could possibly defend a situation where somebody work for about seven months or more and they are not paid. This report had to take place now because the rascality of these governors and politicians will go haywire anytime from now.
    “They are not going to think of paying salaries again and every money that comes in is going to be channeled towards political campaign. So, if you don’t get salaries paid now, it is not likely that it will be paid when campaigns hots up. So, we needed to cry beyond the shores of Nigeria because we are all part of the ILO and they have roles to pay,” Adeyemi stated.