The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ogun State, on Wednesday, urged the administration of Governor Ibikunle Amosun, to pay the state workforce from the acclaimed N6 billion monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) by the state government.
Speaking at a news conference in Abeokuta, after the State Executive Council meeting, the state chairman of the union, Comrade Akeem Ambali, said non payment of workers’ salaries called for concern.
Workers, under the umbrella of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, recently raised the alarm over what it described as selective salary payment introduced by the state government.
The association, an affiliate of Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria, in a statement signed by its Secretary, Adebiyi Olusegun, said the mode of payment of salaries adopted by the government was unbelievable and totally unacceptable.
Ambali insisted that payment of workers’ salaries in batches should not arise in a state that generated billions of naira monthly, describing such claim as untrue.
Ambali said: “Our monthly salaries is about N2.5 billion. So, if the government, as at last two weeks, hinted that the Internally Generated Revenue had hit N6 billion, then, what is the rationale behind the non payment of the November salaries of some workers in the state?
“And no hope of December salary, workers are being thrown into state of confusion. It is unjustifiable and we demand for urgent attention. May be some people are trying to misadvise the governor.
“It is good to do infrastructure developments, but, where there is no human capital development, their cannot be happy civil servants. Even if we are having challenges with money, what about the one you remitted to our PFAs accounts. Why are you not paying it?”
In a communique issued after the meeting, the Union commended the passage of the Local Government autonomy by the State House of Assembly.
The Union also frowned at the non-payment of 12.5 per cent teachers’ allowance and the payment of N2000 for car loan by workers, as it resolved that the application form should be stopped and refund made for those who had paid before the end of December.
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