BREAKING NEWS, Politics
STAFF of Federal Ministry of Information, on Tuesday, March 28, protested at the Radio House over non-payment of their allowances.
The workers, who came out in their numbers, abandoned their duty posts to drive home their demand for the intervention of Lai Mohammed, minister of Information and Culture.
The protesters, who chanted songs of displeasure and blocked the gate of the ministry, told reporters that they were subjected to work under poor conditions, delay of promotion arrears, non-payment of repatriation allowances and selective training of staff.
The protest took another dimension when they were stopped from entering the office of the minister at the Secretariat by the Department of State Service and Police. Then, the protesting workers began to call them names and rained abuses on them.
Some of the placards wielding by the staffs read: “Our welfare must be paramount. Minister, Permanent Secretary pay our 2016 Abuja carnival stipend. Pay our retirement, repartition allowance. Enough is enough. Enough of the continuous silence. This impunity is too much. We have taken our destiny by our hands. We work daily with little or no working materials. Withdraw the preliminary letter issued to sports officials.’’
Wadam Wuron, leader of the protest who is the union chairman of Ministry Of Information, said that the staff of the ministry were fed up with antics of the minister of Information and Culture.
“Today is the day of judgment we all have to take our destiny by our hands. Enough is enough of the tricks that the management of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture have been playing on the floor since the inception of this management nothing has moved.
We are fed up; there are no working materials, people are retiring, no repartition allowance, no penny in this ministry. Our staffs went for sport they won so many medals that have made this ministry to be proud, nothing is been done for them. They went on loans, the banks they collected these loans from are on their necks in fact, and when money comes it is always been held on to by the management.
‘’The welfare of the staff is not paramount in their hands. Enough is enough that is the reason why we have taken our destiny by our hands. That is the purpose of our protesting today. Today as we are talking, the staffs are saying, we want our welfare back,’’ he said.
— Mar 29, 2017 @ 19:30 GMT
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