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STRIKING Environmental Workers yesterday threatened to shut down all public cemeteries in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
A few days ago, the workers embarked on indefinite strike action over alleged failure of the FCT Administration to implement a new salary structure for them.
Chairman of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), Comrade Muktar Bala said they wilol shut all cemeteries if the government did not implement the new salary structure.
”These dead bodies that have overstayed in the hospital for years, we take care of them, without knowing what killed them. Hospitals come to us when they want mass burial for such dead bodies. If there are unclaimed or unknown corpse either on the roads or elsewhere, Police will write reports and bring them to us for burial.
“We have agreed to open the cemetery by 9am Thursday due to calls from the Presidency. However, if the agreement is not met, we will not only shut down the Cemetery, but all our systems and operations”.
-The Nation
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