The continued delay in the disbursement of May allocation for the payment of the balance of April salary to the staff of local government including Primary School teachers in Oyo State, has been described as betrayal of the trust of the workers’ body in the governor, Abiola Ajimobi. This was part of the resolutions of the meeting of the state executive council of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Oyo State council, held at the Congress Secretariat, Yidi, Gate, Ibadan, over the weekend. The congress-in-session remarked that the government’s action was a deviation from the spirit of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) mutually singed in the wake of the salary crisis and therefore urged immediate payment.
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Following the bail-out announced for states/local governments last week by the Federal Government, the congress called on the state governor Abiola Ajimobi to ensure immediate payment of all outstanding arrears of salaries of workers in the state public service, tertiary institutions and pensions in the state as soon as the bail- out fund is released.
At the end of the congress, it was stated that, “following critical review of the crisis of unpaid arrears of workers’ salaries in the public service, tertiary institutions and pensions in the state with its attendant economic hardship on the entire workforce of Oyo State, vis-à-vis the recent approval of President Muhammadu Buhari of a bail-out, the meeting with the governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi to ensure immediate payment of all outstanding arrears of salaries of workers in the state public service, tertiary institutions in the state as soon as the bail-out is released by the Federal government to the state”.
The congress in-session further implored the state government to be wary of any misadvise as is being rumored to divert the fund for some uses other than the purposes for which is immediate payment of arrears of salaries in the public service, tertiary institutions and pensions.
The meeting also expressed worries and grave concern over the withdrawal of the services of the workers buses from the roads and the attendant agonies which workers suffer especially at this critical period of accumulated salaries.
The congress-in session therefore appealed to governor Ajimobi to direct the return of the buses for the use of the workers to ameliorate the hardship they are currently passing through as occasioned by the avoidable withdrawal.
