The Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has been urged to sack the management of the state University Teaching Hospital, ABSUTH, the state polytechnic, ABIAPOLY, and the state’s transport company, ABIALINE.
The call was made by leaders of the Organized Labour Unions in the State who lamented the inability of the managements to pay their workers despite the monies the agencies are generating.
The Chairman of the state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Uchenna Obigwe, who Spoke on behalf of the labour unions, said that the union can’t understand why an agency that is generating money can’t pay salaries as at when due.
The labour leaders spoke during a meeting with the Governor to deliberate on how to deploy the recently received refund of N10.6b by the state from the excess deductions on World Bank loans.
Obigwe noted, “My Governor, Abialine is owing workers 12 months. We can’t understand why because every day, you see ABIA LINE buses on the road, carrying passengers and goods to every part of the country.
“We all enter Abia line, and we don’t enter it on credit. We pay our transport fare. We have picketed Abia line, yet we can’t understand why they’re owing.
“So we think that sacking the current management and bringing in new management that is ready to work with the state and pay up salaries will be the appropriate thing to do now.
“The same thing goes the the management of ABIAPOLY and ABSUTH. Students of ABIAPOLY are paying schools fees and other fees which the management of the school demanded; we can’t also understand why the management can’t pay workers.
“Sick people who go the ABSUTH pay for their medical bills, we also can’t understand why the management of the hospital can’t pay salaries. So we think you should sack the management of these agencies.” Obigwe said.
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