The organized Labour in Niger State wants the State Government to pay civil servants their full salaries for the month ofJune.
The call was made in a communique jointly signed by the state NLC chairman, Yakubu Garba and trade union congress, Yunusa, after an emergency joint State Executive Committee meeting, held at the congress secretariat in Minna on Wednesday.
The meeting was to study the Government’s position on the June salaries. It condemned the speed with which government slashes workers’ salaries at any given opportunity.
It urges the State salary committee to publish/broadcast the names of eleven thousand ghost workers it claims to have uncovered in an audit exercise.
It adds that the names of the suspects must include their ministries, departments and agencies, bank account details and bank verification numbers.
The organized labour further warns that should the committee fail to meet with its demands within ten working days, it will be left with no option than to commence a three-day working strike and boycott the committee’s screening.
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On Friday last week, the meeting between the organized labour and the Niger State Government to discuss the state’s inability to meet up with full payment of workers’ salaries for the month of June, ended in a deadlock.
The state government attributes the action to shortfalls in federation account allocations.
