Benue workers unpaid since December 2015

According to Benue.com,workers in Benue State have not received salaries this year as their last salary was that for December 2015.
This was disclosed by the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC chairman in the state, Mr. Godwin Anya while speaking to newsmen.

Anya said  state workers were last paid in December, 2015 while local government workers and teachers were owed five months’ salaries, beginning from November, 2015.

“We are meeting with His Excellency (State Governor, Samuel Ortom) on Monday to discuss salary issue; we are not talking of strike yet until we meet with him,” Anya said.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Terver Akase, on his part, said workers were owed salaries for three months including January, February and March.

He added that efforts were being made to pay the wages as soon as possible, stressing that “the (Samuel) Ortom administration believes that a worker deserves his wages”.