Video: NNPC casual workers block gate entrance over unpaid salaries

By Ehi Ekhator, United Kingdom

Some angry casual staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) took to the street on Wednesday to protest their complete neglect by their contractors.

The workers blocked the entrance of the NNPC requesting for the payment of 9 months from the contractors.

One of the protesters who spoke with NAIJA CENTER NEWS said that the government paid the contractors who have refused to pay them.

 

A protester who didn’t want to be named said ” We are in Warri refinery, we are on a demonstration in refinery. They have held our salaries for seven months, some over twelve months. The promises we have been hearing is that there is no money, so we matched today that no one is going in and out until our monies are paid.

“The contractors owe the support staff for many months, they said they held their meetings and told us they will pay us at the end of the month, but we said that is too far”

“But what we knew was the former Managing Director, Engr Adewole ladenegan mismanage our fund which some of this present management were among”

Several calls put across to manager of one of the contractors,  Desire Mike were not answered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbyKn572LJM

Video: NNPC casual workers block gate entrance over unpaid salaries

Kano directors pay N18m monthly to 1,830 ‘ghost’ cleaners

The Kano State Government has uncovered 1,830 ghost workers out of the 2,490 casual workers engaged as street cleaners by the state Refuse Management and Sanitation Board, resulting in the loss N18.1m to the state government.

Kano State Commissioner for Information, Malam Garba Mohammed, disclosed this in an interview with theNews Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Saturday.

He said the figure was presented to the State Executive Council during its meeting on Wednesday by the committee recently set up to verify the actual number of the workers.

“According to the committee’s report, out of the 2,490 casual workers of the board, 1,830 are ghost workers.

‘”So, based on the report, the state government is losing N18.1m monthly and this is one of the allegations that led to the setting up of the committee to investigate the issue. You will be surprised to know that for the past three years, the people had been siphoning the money every month,’’ he said.

He added that names of about six directors, alleged to have been involved in the scandal, had been forwarded to the office of the Head of Civil Service for appropriate disciplinary action.

“The office of the Head of Service will investigate their individual involvement with a view to coming up with appropriate punishment,’’ he said.

Kano directors pay N18m monthly to 1,830 ‘ghost’ cleaners