Ogun releases N200m for LG workers’ salary arrears
Nigeria Union of Local Government
Employees says Ogun State Government has released N200m to settle part
of the arrears owed council workers in the state.
Workers in the 20 local governments in
the state, under the aegis of NULGE, had given the state government a
21-day ultimatum to settle the arrears owed them or risk an indefinite
industrial action.
NULGE Caretaker Committee Chairman,
Benedict Akinleye, however, told journalists on Friday in Abeokuta
during a press conference on the union’s forthcoming Award/Gala Night,
that the amount was part of the first tranche released by the government
for the payment of the workers’ arrears.
Akinleye said the union had reached an
agreement with the state government on the modalities for offsetting the
accumulated debt, which he said, was due to the failure to remit
pension deduction from the workers’ pay.
He commended the Governor Ibikunle
Amosun administration for releasing the N200m as first installment to
effect the payment of debt owed by the past administration.
The union leader, however, appealed to
the state government to fulfill its promise to support the councils with
the payment of the second installment so that the LG chairmen could
sustain the payment of workers’ salary by the 26th of every month.
The Chairman of the Planning Committee
of NULGE Award/Gala Night, Mr. Tola Osunlaja, expressed regret that
only senior and top management staff in many organisations were
usually considered for awards, while the junior and unskilled workers
were not reckoned with at all.
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