Workers in Ekiti State have
issued a fourteen-day ultimatum to Governor Ayo Fayose to pay all arrears of
salaries and pension of retirees.
Acting under the aegis of Ekiti
State Organized Labour, they said the Fayose government must clear all arrears
of workers’ entitlements before a new government takes office on October 16.
The workers’ demand were
contained in a bulletin issued on Saturday.
Their demands also include
payment of over seven months deduction, payment nine month arrears to local
government workers and primary school teachers.
They also advocated payment of
eleven months and six months pensions to local government pensioners and state
government pensioners respectively.
The bulletin reads: “Workers in
the public service of Ekiti State have been suffering over the years with
nobody to rescue them in relation to payment of salaries, pensions and other
benefits.
“The import of this is that the
condition of service of an average worker in Ekiti is deplorable or poor
despite the huge funds allocated to Ekiti State from the Federation Account
between 2014 to date.
“In view of the present
development in the state occasioned by the result of the governorship election,
it has become necessary to assess the implication on welfare of workers
vis-Ã -vis the arrears of unpaid salaries.
“In order to avoid a situation
whereby the incoming government may wish to foot drag on the payment of the
arrears of salaries on the premise that the organized labour was inept to the
payment of same by the outgoing government thus amounting to a huge financial
burden on the new government.
“The state government is hereby
given a 14-day ultimatum to meet these demands.”
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