Information reliably gathered has it that workers of Mirrage Hotel Calabar owned by current Minister of Culture and Tourism, High Chief Edem Duke embarks on indefinite strike due to none payment of close to a year salary.

Birthed on the eve of Nigerian 99, FIFA U20 World Cup, Mirrage hotel has been harbinger of modern day hospitable hotels in Calabar but torn in the flesh to its teeming workers. It was gathered that the five star hotel has been suffering series of monumental seizures in her 15yrs of existence. Despite high patronage that the hotel enjoys, the management has refused to pay the workers for several months and this has resulted in peaceful demonstration by staffs to express their grievances to both its management and the owner, High Chief Edem Duke.

Findings revealed that the demonstration is not first of its kind as several has been organized but always fell on the deaf ears of the serving Minister in the Executive Council of President Goodluck Jonathan.

In another development, the Minister, High Chief Edem Duke, who is the Minister in Charge of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality has been found to be hiding his family illegally in the United Kingdom for the past two years without rectifying the illegality.

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