Umaru Tanko Al-Makura
Staff of local government areas and Primary school teachers in Nasarawa State have expressed their anger towards the National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, in the State, over the inability of the union to protect their interest.
They complained that despite the release and distribution of May allocation from the federation account to all the Local government councils across the country, they merely received only 30 percent of their salaries for the month of May.
Some employees of the councils, who spoke to DAILY POST in confidence disclosed that they were paid 73 percent of their salaries in April, with a promise that the balance would come with the May salary. They added that to their greatest shock, the May salary slashed to 30 percent.
According to the aggrieved workers, NULGE and NUT had disappointed them as they failed to defend their rights, instead they were more interested in full deductions of check-off dues from the half salaries.
“This is dehumanising as what some of us will take home is a far cry from the old minimum wage and with the high cost of living, we have been reduced to paupers”, a 50-year-old teacher, who has two wives, with six children lamented.
Some of the workers urged the state government to dissolve the local government councils and take over payment of salaries of local government staff and teachers.
It would be recalled that the Nasarawa State government said recently that it was remiting to the local government councils all their allocations.
However, the Councils had continued to claim there had been short fall in their usual monthly revenue.
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