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Pay Our Salaries, Forget Solidarity Strike, Ekiti Workers Tell Gov. Fayose

Fayose of EkitiThe Ekiti State workers have asked Governor Ayodele Fayose to pay them their salaries and entitlements instead of his declared solidarity strike.

“What we want is our money to alleviate our poverty.”

The workers have been on industrial action for about two weeks over non-payment of five months outstanding salaries.

The organized labour said that what the workers needed was at least payment of three months salaries to actually authenticate the sincerity of the self-imposed strike declared by Fayose.
The Chairman of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Odunayo Adesoye, who spoke to newsmen in Ado Ekiti, said that the level of poverty among the civil servants had become burdensome and unbearable to the extent that they had become beggars.
“We appreciate the governor for sharing from our pains and anguish. But the workers will appreciate and commend him the more if he can pay at least two or three months salaries out of five months owed.

“Our situation has gone beyond the governor declaring mere solidarity strike. We need more of actions now than talks because our situation is gradually becoming hopeless.

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“Some of us have the intention of going to work, but no money to pay for transport fare. Some of us could not take two square meal a day. Some could not cook soup with ordinary fish, so our situation has gone beyond what anyone could trivialize.

“But I want to say that we are resolute to fight on, because it is an issue that borders on our welfare, careers and prosperity.

“We are hearing that the federal government want to give grants to states, so if Mr Governor could pay three months now, it will be easy to use the grant to pay the remaining two months and still help in paying for the subsequent months.
“We appeal to the workers to be law abiding. We want them to be civil‎ even in the face of provocation. By the grace of God, we shall all rejoice in the end.” [myad]

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