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Non Payment Of Salary: Gov Bello You’re Owing Kogi Workers Between Eight And Thirty Months – NLC Tells Gov. Bello

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The Organised Labour in Kogi state has disclosed that the state government is owing every genuine worker in the state between 8 to 39 months salaries, saying governor Yahaya Bello’s statement of not owing Kogi workers a dime is untrue.

 

State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Onuh Edoka who disclosed this in government house, Lokoja on Wednesday during a meeting between the labour Union and the state government said available records clearly show that every worker on the pay roll of the current government by calculation have not been paid between December 2018 to May 2019, which according to him amounts to six months.

 

The Union Leader pointed out that from the bailout fund, the government only paid 60 per cent of five months to state workers , stressing that the cumulation of the unpaid 40 per cent of five months translated to two months , saying if added to the six months unpaid salaries it amounts to eight months the government is owing genuine workers in the state.

 

Explaining further Comrade Edoka said “On your assumption of office in January 2016, the workers are owed November, December 2015 and January 2016. We are aware that the present administration took allocation of December in January 2016 meaning that the Captain Wada’s administration only owed November, December 2015.

 

“Captain Wada’s administration through investigation and auditing discovered that the local government workers were owed 45.2 billion naira while the state civil servants were also owed over 5 billion naira which formed the basis of applying for the bailout of 50.8 billion naira.

 

“Governor Bello led administration collected 20 billion naira out of the sum as bailout and only used 10 billion naira to pay part of the salaries arrears owed local government workers.

 

“Where this current administration got it wrong was when the bailout came the allocation that followed were not used to pay workers salaries and that was the beginning of workers problems as far as salaries was concern.

 

“The prolong screening exercise further increased government indebtedness to workers at the state and the local government levels as workers are owed between 8 to 39 months.

 

He lamented that the governor and his aides were moving round the state and the country at large to mislead people that the government is not owing workers a dime, describing the situation as unacceptable to the organised labour in the state.

 

Edoka however appealed to Governor Bello to look into the ugly and pathetic situation of the workers in the state with a view to help to ameliorate the suffering of workers in the state.

 

Governor Bello who was shocked over the confidence of the labour leader to tell him the truth to his face admitted to workout modalities to resolve the salaries arrears.

 

According to him “My administration has done much with the lean resources to develop the state adding that in less than three years he built Kogi Board of Internal Revenue service office complex, complete Ankpa township roads.

 

The governor called on the leadership of the organised labour to support his administration for the dividend of democracy.

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