Backlog of salaries: Kogi Labour Cancels Workers' Day

The organized labour in Kogi state has announced the cancellation of planned  celebration of workers day otherwise known as May Day due to the untold hardship in the state as a result of backlog Salaries.


This was made known by the The chairman Nigeria Labour Congress Kogi state, Comrade Onuh Edoka and his Trade Union Congress (TUC), Ojo Ranti disclosed in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital.

Edoka noted that the cancellation of the May Day is to register the organized labour's displeasure on the way and manner the state government handled it's members so far.

The NLC Chief also registered his dissatisfaction that the screening appeal and complaint committee is yet to be made available to the organized labour in order for the Union to come up with its observation, while describing it as government antics not to allow labour have details contained in the report.

The labour leader further stated that the non payment of salaries to a large number of workers, pensioners over the last fourteen months has destroyed the civil service and the workforce of the state.

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