Workers of Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State marched on the streets yesterday to protest their four-month unpaid salary arrears.
The workers shut the gate leading into the secretariat premises, saying they were protesting the council’s inability to pay their accumulated arrears of leave allowances.
The protest caused a gridlock on the Bende road axis of the as motorists were forced to take alternative routes.
Read Also: Kogi: Labour demands N2.8b outstanding workers’ salary
The about 400 protesters carried placards with inscriptions such as “We have not received our leave allowances for 2014, 2018, 2019”; “NFIU should come and rescue us”; “Our allocation has been tampered with and our salaries not been paid by Abia Govt”; “Don’t pay us on thumbprint. Let it go round the whole 17 councils”; “We can’t pay our rents and children’s school fees”; “Abia govt, we are dying of hunger, Give us our milk”; “Pay us our four-month salary arrears.”
National Union of Local Government Employee (NULGE) chairman Comrade Nkemakolam Nwosu said: “For four and half months, we have not been paid. The government owes us. Let them pay us.
“We are suffering. Our 2017, 2018 and 2019 leave allowances have not been paid…”
Leave a Reply