They also accused the leadership of labour of taking N25 million bribe to destabilize the Ayo Fayose-led government .
The protesters led by the Chairmen of Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria, Com. Samuel Agbede and National Union of Road Transport Workers, Com Clement Adekola, paraded placards of various inscriptions, massed at the popular Fajuyi Park and marched to Ijigbo to shore up supports for Fayose’s government.
While speaking with newsmen, the RTEAN Chairman said the workers industrial came at the wrong time, saying he expected the labour leaders to take a cue from Ondo , Oyo , Benue and Osun States, who are owing more than five months salaries without the workers going on strike.
In his words, “the workers cannot afford to paralyse the state because Governor Fayose has demonstrated transparency in the distribution of federal allocations accruing to Ekiti. The labour leaders were part of the negotiation that agreed that two month allocations should be lumped up to pay one month salary.
“But as we speak now, two months allocations can’t even pay one month salary. The governor used March and April allocations to pay for December and where do they expect him to get money to pay full salary of about N2.6 billion monthly now?
“We expect them to show understanding . But we are beginning to see that this strike has political undertone”, he alleged.
He berated the labour unions for asking Fayose to spend the internally generated revenue to pay workers’ salary together with federal allocations, urging them to desist from arrogating the state to workers alone. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Yes oh! they have nothing to do with salaries, they get their cash from the street so the street is ruling in Ekiti! ah I thought I heard Ekiti has the greatest number of professors or educated elites in the country please where are they? it is turning in2 a comic affair in that great state shame!!!
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DeleteEkiti kete. o ma se oo. look what these nonenties that have mortgage the future of their children in the hands of Fayose are saying just because of stomach infrastructure. haaaaaa! !!!
ReplyDeleteMiscreants & street guys(motor boys) are now speaking for Ekiti people.all in the name of staged protest tailored by basket mouth of Ekiti(Fayose).where are the profs..hmmmm.I dey laugh ooo.
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