Plateau State Chapter of the Association of Local Government Chairmen of Nigeria ALGON, says all Council chairmen in the 17 local governments have unanimously agreed to independently handle the payments of their respective workers in their council.
State ALGON Chairman, Ezekiel Vuelgap, made this known while speaking with newsmen after a crucial meeting held between Council chairmen and Labor union leaders in the 17 LGA’s In Jos, the State Capital.
Recall, that Local Government Workers in Plateau State are in their fourth months now without salaries, and this is coming few months after the State Governor Simon Lalong, granted autonomy to the local government councils.
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According to the State ALGON Chairman, the resolution came following the delay in the payment of salaries by council chairmen in the past few months occasioned by the minimum wage increment as well as the dwindling Federal allocations to states.
In his words ” Arising from our meeting with the Labor union leaders with representatives from ministries on the issues of salaries ,you are aware that last year ALGON and labor union as well as workers in Plateau agreed on the implementation of the 30 thousand Naira minimum wage .
He lamented that what is coming in is insufficient to pay the council workers salaries as at when due hence the delay .
Meanwhile, sources from the Local Government Workers Union told ait.live that the Local Government Chairman had offered to pay them only one and a half month salary which was vehemently rejected by workers before it was resolved that each Local Government should handle it’s own case separately.
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
