Salary Cut Bottleneck: Nasarawa Organized Labour Tells State/Local Workers to Stay At Home

Rabiu Omaku

• No going back on salary cut-Al-Makura

Irked over the fifty percent salary cut by the government of Nasarawa state, the organized labour calling on its members to stay at home, the chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Abdullahi Adeka has said.

The NLC, TUC and the Joint Negotiating Council during a press conference appealed to state and local government workers to stay at home as they declared total strike demanding the government to revert back to the national new minimum wage.

The organized labour urged the state government to rescind to payment of hundred percent as against fifty (50) percent salary cut.

It would be recalled that the chairman of TUC, Sabo Namo last week gave the state government 48 hours ultimatum to revert back to the original payment template or face total shutdown.

It make be recalled that governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura in his Sallah message said the state would not reverse back to the former salary template,universalreporters247.com can authoritatively unfold that complain continued to trail the new salary cut policy of the current APC in the state.

A lecturer in Nasarawa State Polytechnic who pleaded anonymity confided that his salary was cut by 55%,” i use to collect N120, 000 but I got an alert of N66, 000 as he decried high tax deduction.

While one of the lecturers in a telephone conversation averred that he got an alert of N17, 000 as against the normal N120, 000 is collecting without bank facilities, Also a permanent secretary in one of the ministry as at press time said is yet to receive his alert.

Workers in the state are grumbling over the movement of civil servants bank account from Skye bank to fidelity bank, the chairman of the Board of Internal Revenue, Usman Okposhi declined comment as vast of workers are complaining over high tax deduction in spite of salary cut. Only time shall tell.