…say we’re passing through hard times

By Anayo Okoli

UMUAHIA—ABIA State Council of Nigeria Labour Congress [NLC] has tasked the Abia State Government to settle arrears of salary owed to Abia workers without further delay.

In a communiqué raised at its state executive council meeting, in Umuahia, Abia NLC told Governor Okezie Ikpeazu not to use some projects embarked by his administration “as a hindrance to pay workers’ salaries”, lamenting that Abia workers “are currently passing through hard times due to non-payment of salaries”.

In the communiqué which was sent to Governor Ikpeazu through the Head of Service, Labour also called on the government to “as a matter of urgency address the issue of pension arrears owed to pensioners in the State which spans between 5-12 months as the case may be”.

Abia workers also condemned in “strong terms, the non-release of check-off dues as at when due from MDAs”, even as they called on the government to “clear the arrears of gratuity owed to retirees in Abia State spanning over 15 years”.

To avoid the continuation of the ugly fate of retired workers in the State, the communiqué said that Abia workers have adopted the introduction of the Contributory Pension Fund Scheme which they hoped would address the untold hardship of retirees if well managed.

The communiqué which was signed by the State Chairman, Comrade Uchenna Obigwe and the acting Secretary, Comrade John Onaga also frowned at “high taxation of Abia workers which is based on consolidated salary structure, not minding that not all Abia workers are on consolidated salary.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/abia-workers-lament-non-payment-salaries-pension-gratuity/

Chai..... My people have suffered and Ikpeazu is busy wasting federal allocation on court cases.

Lolz

Op thank you for your observation but it will not affect the court case as Ogah remains a hon certificate of return holer

cktheluckyman:
Op thank you for your observation but it will not affect the court case as Ogah remains a hon certificate of return holer

So this is what you say? You are part of the People deceiving the embattled Governor. This evil man wants to finish my parents who are civil servants in his state. Since he came in as Governor he has not used his monthly allocation to pay salaries. What he does with it..... Only God knows. My parents are being owed 5 months salary and the thing is seriously telling on me as I cannot save again. They were last paid in January and this is July and his praise singers thinks that it shall be well with him..... How can it be well with him? The ones he managed to pay was from the bailout money he got from FG since then nothing. If am lying against him maybe just to smear his name may God judge me but if not may God bring him to judgment and visit him with the kind of suffering he has caused my parents.

Ikpeazu pay my uncles and aunts oh biko.