The Action Democratic Party (ADP) has accused the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode administration in Lagos State of owing street sweepers several months of unpaid salaries.
The party, in a statement by its Lagos State Publicity Secretary, Prince Adelaja Adeoye, lamented what it termed the unfair treatment meted out on the sweepers by the Visionscape and the Lagos State Government.
ADP claimed that Governor Ambode allegedly pulled down the effective PSP service that had tried to keep Lagos environment clean and replaced it with Visionscape, whose services it said has repeatedly failed to improve on the environmental outlook, waste management and disposal system of the State.
The party further alleged that since Visionscape came on board, dirt has littered the entire state, while the workers they engaged to help take the garbage off the streets were being owed several months of salaries, with no payment of hazard allowance, or provision of basic working tools and other benefits.
ADP, while declaring that the people’s welfare should be of utmost concern to the government, stressed that it was shameful that the street sweepers had to protest at Alausa, state capital, to show their displeasure.
They, however, called on the state government, to pay up all the outstanding salaries of workers.
”It is inhuman the way the street sweepers are being tossed between Visionscape and Ministry of Environment for their payment, that government should not allow innocent workers to suffer untold hardship for rendering service to Lagos State.
”Since Visionscape has failed to make Lagos cleaner, but rather subjected it to a more filthier environment which can lead to outbreak of contagious and viral diseases. ADP charges the Lagos State government to revert back to the former PSP waste management and disposal system.”
The party urged the state government to immediately settle all outstanding salaries and other benefits that accrued to the street sweepers.
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