NIGERIAN LABOUR:PAEDIA EXPRESS WRITES I.L.O OVER UNPAID SALARIES,PENSIONS

PAEDIA EXPRESS WRITES I.L.O OVER YEARS OF UNPAID SALARIES,PENSION IN NIGERIA..

The DIRECTOR GENERAL,

The INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION[I.L.O]

4 ROUTE DES MORILLONS,UNITED NATIONS,

GENEVA ,SWITZERLAND.

Dear Sir,

 

i write you to inform your office of the general breakdown of law and order in my country ,Nigeria as afr as labour issues are concerned.

There is a common phrase and which is even scriptural and that is the fact that a labourer is worth his wages but this is glossed over in the administration of the affairs of each state by virtually all the elected Governors in Nigeria..

Out of the 36 state Governors in Nigeria,The News office Desk of E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria where i work has it on record though from secondary sources that only Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state has paid salaries up till date.

We do not have any mechanism to confirm this in a jiffy but judging from the quality of life which is open for all to see we are tempted to believe this assertion completely.

This kind of incident was alien to our culture but it started to gather grounds in the immediate regime of Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan .

In Kogi State where i hail from we have a Governor who has a habit of throwing away money from public treasury and then distributing same to them while at the same time giving out perks among which could includes vehicles to custodians of masquerades in the state while payment of salaries which is his primary duties are usually neglected.

Sir,i hope that you can use your good offices to put pressure on the Nigerian Labour Congress [N.LC]and the Trade Union Congress[T.U.C]to use their respective state chapters to sue their state governments as the Nigerian Federal Government recently declared that it had released a sum of around $ 1.9trillion  towards alleviating the sufferings of workers in the states but to which Governors have decided to divert to other uses best known to them.

Again using Kogi state as a case study ,at least 500 workers have died due to the pangs of hunger and a rising wave of poverty ,on a personal note i do know somebody who is almost blind due to Governor Yahaya Bello's callous nature and i do also know somebody who died to a case of diabetes which became very severe after it emerged that he had no money to treat himself.

i can arrange a meeting between you .sir and the victim's family if you wish to confirm what i have just said and infact you will most likely weep at the poor living conditions of people in the midlands,Kogi State of Nigeria.

i pray sir,that you can use your God given position to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to allow an official or officials of your agency to be fixed for each of the states in Nigeria so that this way salaries and pensions can get to the real owners otherwise i have lost total confidence in this group of politicians to ever do the right thing as this is completely alien to them.

if this is not done i fear a workers revolt very soon and this can cause more chaos for a nation that already battles Boko Haram,Fulani Herdsmen  and so many other social vices.

I wish you very well on Nigeria's labour Matters,sir..

Thanks,

Yours Faithfully,

Abdulmumini ireyi Adeku,

Founder,

E.N.M.Paedia Express

Multimedia Group,Lagos,

Nigeria..

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