National Vice President of the NLC, Lucy Offiong
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to shut down airports
across the country if governors owing salaries to their civil servants
do not pay such outstanding wages immediately.
National Vice President of the NLC, Lucy Offiong, who issued the
threat in Jos on Thursday while supervising a protest of the state
chapter of the congress over non-payment of salaries of members by the
Plateau State government, said such a drastic measure might become
imperative to compel governors to pay up.
Offiong said,
“Governors, who are among the most frequent users of
airports may need to be deprived of the facility so that they might be
moved to give their workers what is theirs by right, their monthly
wages.”
Also speaking at the state House of Assembly, venue of the protest, the
state Chairman of the NLC, Comrade Jibrin Bancir, said the NLC took its
protest to the State House of Assembly because the Assembly which
passed the state budget, with provision for workers' salaries, should be
able to compel the state governor, who proposed the budget, to
implement it, including the payment of workers' salaries.
He said, “I don't know what the House of Assembly members are doing to
provide relief to the plight of the civil servants whose children are
out of school and who cannot afford to feed their families; so we are
here to let the House know what workers are going through and to ask the
House to prevail on the governor to fulfil his obligations to the
workers, including the payment of their salaries and other outstanding
entitlements.”
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