Olekumaster: oh but i did. When our tertiary institutions were on a strike for almost a year and the staffs kept on pocketing their salaries every month, you tell me if dat is justified!!!

zicoraads: I repeat, you know nothing of the situation in Benue State.

bonechamberlain: this is the result of all round bad leadership in this country. a state that prides itself as food basket of the Nation, cannot pay salaries. why don't they invest heavily on agriculture and develop the state.. no they all wait for oil allocation from Federal govt. the Benue cement company which was supposed to provide jobs and even revenue for the govt is now moribund. may God help us even though we can't help ourselves

sunnyshayne: These workers should understand with the government and their colleagues the teachers na. Strike upon strike.


the lifestyle of these governors doesn't help matters sef.

utenwuson: Suswam is the worst governor in the history of mankind!!! Most PDP governors re below average in terms of performance, state like Kogi,delta n so many wtout any meaningful development for d 8 yrs ds imbecilesss spent! Suswam spent virtually all his time with Gej in Abuja! Jst wondering wat there re up 2..... Mk God destroy ds World make all of us start afresh!

zicoraads: Gov Gabriel Suswam is a classic example of a thief. This action should have happened long before now. The long strike by primary school teachers was enough reason for them to have taken this action. But whatever the case maybe, he has no right to deduct any worker's salary. Benue state has a large IGR base, the only problem is Suswam.

Suswam's associates spend money in Benue state like its going out of fashion. What he needs to do is to plug the loopholes that makes political appointees instant millionaires just weeks after getting there. He should also curtail the way he spends thousands going into millions of naira on girls anytime he shamelessly goes to a club.

Besides, I believe this is just to free up some funds for his senatorial ambition come 2015. I trust my people, when that time comes and they are given some bags of rice, all else would be forgotten and the criminal would be elected as a senator.

Olekumaster: naija workers, na only salary dem sabi. Even if they are amatuerd in their profession, they still want money increase

Soloter: the government deducted far more than 10%. 50k was deducted from someone who collects 180k. this is 27.7%.

kokoA: Understand what?! My brother abeg no make me vex this morning o.. You need to visit Benue to see the damage this Sesuwan of a man has done physically, morally and otherwise.. No significant project to show! Have you ever heard of anything (even swimming pool) being commissioned in Benue?! Okay, if he is not using these monies (Federal allocation and IGR) for developments then why can't he pay government workers? Where is all the money going? No development, no salary, no money in state's account, the money just disappears like willy willy shey? The only time you'd see money in that state is when you visit beer palors, night clubs, state organised beer carnival (where the governor calls on all youth in the state to come and drink free beer), state organised beauty peagents (where the government invite youths to come and see naked girls for free).. Smh.

kreezzy: Must strike be the solution to their problem?

Afritop: Whyshould the state government cause such trouble, they ought to have known that If they minus 1 from worker's salary, workers will say they minus 5. However Such deductions will give impetus and promise for more additions and multiplications by the time the workers downtools

omenka: Shut your trap. What do you know?? Are you even employed?? What do the politicians themselves do to justify their gargantuan salaries??

From what I gather, not a single developmental project has been embarked upon in the last three years! All the governor has succeeded in doing in his second term is to build the biggest hotel, Metropolitan Hotel, in Makurdi and a new Government house, then keep flowers in flower vases on road deviders while breaking and remaking road deviders over and over again! The contract to do so running into billions!!!!!!

Internally, the state generates over 1.8billion monthly. What has the governor been doing with all that funds, in addition to the fed allocations, that he had to slash poor workers' salaries to pay teachers?? Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul! How about slashing his security votes to pay the workers Some of those workers were even said to have had as much as 35% slashed!! I dare Idu-mud-house to come dispute any of these!!

Isn't this pure robbery in daylight?? Yet those idiots would come here talking about Ekiti and Osun states workers' welfare when they are yet to remove the logs in PDP's eyes!

And where is that fat headed Idumuose to defend his useless governor?? Perhaps Buhari plotted the stealing of those monies too.

Oloshi jatjati!

kreezzy: Must strike be the solution to their problem?

omenka: Shut your trap. What do you know?? Oloshi jatjati!

tbagjames: Written by Hope Abah The Nigeria Labour Congress in
Benue state is set to begin the
mother of all strikes on
Thursday following the
deduction of its workers June
salaries by the state government to enable it pay
teachers' minimum wage.
The development is against the
background of Governor
Gabriel Suswam's appeal to cut
down on state workers salaries in order to pay
primary schools teachers who
had resumed academic
activities barely four weeks
ago after an eight months old
protracted strike to press home their demand for the
minimum wage being enjoyed
by other civil servants in the
state.
But, state chairman of NLC,
Comrade Simon Anchaver today told Daily Trust in Makurdi that
the workers never reached a
compromise with government
to deduct their salaries and as
such the body would convey a
meeting tomorrow to discuss the matter which would likely
lead them to stay out of work
in the days ahead.
"They (government) did that on
their own. We have not agreed
on anything yet and they just started deducting our salaries.
After our meeting tomorrow,
we will definitely go on strike,"
he said.
Suswam had earlier in May
disclosed his decision to reduce workers salaries in the state
by 10 percent while political
appointees salaries would be
slashed by 25 percent in-order
to accommodate the teachers'
demand as his administration could not afford to make up
the differences from its
dwindling allocation.
Our correspondent reports
that since last week, workers
whose salaries were touched have taking to the social media
to rain abusive words on the
governor even as they spoil for
war and have asked that they
government revert to their old
earning rate. Some of them also claimed that
the government deducted more
than the 10 percent it actually
appealed for even though they
had refused the idea from the
onset. Dailytrust 29:7:2014

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/top-stories/30370-benue-workers-to-begin-indefinate-strike-over-salary-deduction

EbolaGoingHam:


Boko-haram bombing
workers striking
GEJ working
Buhari hating
America sanctioning
youth jobless
Nairalanders arguing
Ebola killing
Nigeria Moving forward
Haters hating

donnypool Far better than all nairalanders including seun

kreezzy: Must strike be the solution to their problem?

tbagjames:
your moniker says it all

edoyad: Benue state has been cursed with one of the most useless governors in Africa, invariably the world. This state ought to be best state in North Central by virtue of it's economy, instead an old man like Jonah Jang in Plateau has outshone the slowpoke in makurdi in every sphere.
The only thing the government will spend money on is Beer Carnivals, Sponsoring political thugs and organising substandard beauty pageant competitions. The governor has successfully converted most youths in the states to Thugs and prostitutes.
Now his plan is to impoverish the civil servants in the state after destroying primary school education; how can primary schools be on strike for Nine months for heaven's sake ? I pity Nigeria because if this lunatic is successful in making it into the senate in 2015, like he is planning, it's a sign of how terrible things have become.