When the Akwa Ibom State Government embarked on the project , even the cynics would agree that the aim of providing employment to the teeming unemployed youths of Akwa Ibom State was in mind but all that seems was to be elusive now as the project manager of ITB (the Labanese handling the construction of Tropicana) Mr Eli Arassi runs the project site by short-changing the staff salary and sack workers without severance allowance.

Investigation reveals that the perpetuate this atrocity, Mr Arassi on assumption of duty as project Manager demanded for the constituent of the Union Executives that would speak on behalf of the workers and when then Union Executive were elected, the PM carried their loyalty by making permanent staff with jumbo while still subject the workers to slash pay of N1,800 instead of N5000 approved by The State Government for each worker.

According to reports, part of the dehumanizing treatment meted to the workers includes the incessant redundancy without any severance allowance and sometimes a token of N1,800 being a day pay is given to sacked staff without justifiable reason.

Amidst all these, reports reveals that the Union Executives have been compromised by the PM, keeps silence, refused to negotiate for the rights of the workers, thus causing the staff to embark on a peaceful demonstration at the site to demand for the sack of the ITB Project Manager, Mr. Arassi and the union Executives for incompetence.
http://uyocalyaxis.com/ibom-tropicana-workers-stage-protest-over-payroll/

I like this @OP. He reports from both sides of the table.

OP your story isn't true. This is more like fragments of rumours. First there are about 5 contractors on this project of which ITB is just one of them, so ITB workers having labour issues with their PM doesn't translate to closing down IBOM TROPICANA site.

The issues with the workers bother on workers welfare and community relationship in recruitment. The said issue commenced on Monday and prevented only civil works on the Hotel and Convention Centre site. NAIRDA were still doing their electromechanical works on these two sites same way other contractors like Megastar, Julius Berger and Jardin were working on their various sites within the Ibom Tropicana complex .

Negotiations and meetings have been convened by both parties and mediated by representatives of the state government and as at yesterday evening the workers were ready to resume work today. I haven't gotten to site this morning to confirm that claim.

Workers strife is a common thing in any organization , even the most organized firms are still held hostage by their workers some times . So I honestly don't know the aim of this journalist who connoted this story without doing any investigation to see and hear from both sides, but rather threw a blanket Headline that IBOM TROPICANA workers are protesting .