Scores of highway sweepers under the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) on Monday stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly protesting non-payment of their salary arrears by the state government.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the sweepers were protesting the non-payment of five months salary by the authority.
They carried placards with various inscriptions such as “We deserve to be paid for our toiling”; “Life is now difficult, save us from poverty”; “Help us, we have suffered much,” among others.
The sweepers urged the state lawmakers to intervene in order to alleviate the economic hardship they were experiencing.
According to them, the refusal of LAWMA to pay their salaries for five months consecutively, has made life unbearable for them.
One of the sweepers, Mrs Yemisi Oresanwo, noted that life had become difficult for her and her family since they were transfered from the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) to LAWMA,
Oresanwo, who is a supervisor for Ikeja zone, explained that sweepers received N12,000, while supervisors collected N20,000 monthly.
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