President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Bobboi Kaigama, has said that state governors who failed to pay their workers’ salaries and other entitlements are corrupt.
Kaigama said that with bailout funds released through the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari and budget support funding to enable states to settle workers’ salaries, the governors have no excuse to owe workers.
The TUC leader, who spoke to news men shortly after the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Lagos stressed that workers could no longer vouch for state governments that non-payment of salaries was as a result of lack of funds, insisting that the non-payment could be due to corruption.
According to him, it is only the Lagos State Government that has been regularly paying workers’ salaries and allowances.
“All the other states have one issue or the other in terms of salaries or benefits of their workers.
“You will discover that it is 13 months’ arrears of gratuities or pensions that have not been paid.
“In some cases, it is the contributory pension deductions that have not been remitted or promotions arrears and death benefits not been paid.”
Source: NAN
