Kogi State workers have vowed to end the second term of Governor Yahaya Bello in the state.
The workers, who are still being owed 39 months salary, said the governor’s second term would amount to a disaster for the indigenes of the
state.
The state NLC Chairman, Comrade Onuh Edoka, while speaking on the governor’s possible second term, said Bello had done nothing to improve the state workers’ lives by owing them a huge salary arears.
Edoka said the governor had done nothing to ameliorate the sufferings of the workers, who had been due to the non-payment of salaries.
The labour leader lamented that the governor was surrounded by people, who were deceiving him that he had improved the lives of Kogi people, advising him to embark on personal findings to know his record of performance in the state, especially as poverty had ravaged the state due to non-payment of salaries for months.
Going further, he expressed disappointment that the governor lied on national television that the workers in his state were not owed any salary. He confirmed that workers in the state were currently owed several months salaries. Edoka noted that there were categories of workers that were currently owed 39 months, while some were being owed between 7 and 23 months.
Meanwhile, the Labour leader had earlier told the governor that he should stop blaming his woes on past administration as the past government only left three months’ salary unpaid for
him.
His words; “let me put the records straight. The former governor, Captain Idris Ichalla Wada, spent 48 months in office and he paid 45 months salaries, leaving the allocation of December 2015 and January 2016 for your administration to access.
“Nothing is farther from the truth than this. The truth is that your administration is hugely indebted to Kogi workers and you should find a means to defray it, rather than lying to
the public”.
He, however, advised the governor to set up a committee that would do thorough findings on the situations of workers and their families in the state, stressing that the situation in the state had degenerated to a level that pupils and students could no longer go to school; patients could not access drugs even as petty businesses had closed business due to lack of
patronage.
