Civil servants in Osun State trooped out on Tuesday and staged a public protest against the alleged non-payment of five months salaries by the state government.

The workers, who were led by the Chairman of the Trade Union Congress in the state, Mr. Olatunji Akinyemi, marched through the Osogbo/Gbongan Road chanting anti-government songs.

The workers said apart from the failure of the Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration to pay them the outstanding salaries, the same government had refused to remit pension deducted from their previous salaries to various retirement savings accounts.

They claimed that the governor was busy spending the state’s resources on campaigns of the All Progressives Congress and left workers to suffer untold hardship.

The TUC chairman, who spoke in an interview with our correspondent said workers who were due for promotion since 2013 had been denied their rights adding that the government had not shown that the workers meant anything to his administration.

He said, “We are out on the streets today to protest the non-payment of our salaries. The government is owing us five months.

“Apart from the salaries, the loan repayment deductions, pension deductions and union dues deducted from our salaries were stopped were not remitted to the appropriate quarters.

“The workers say no to non payment of our salaries, we say no to illegal withholding of fund deducted from our salaries. The government has refused to pay its part of workers’ pension, the ones deducted from our salaries were not remitted.”

He said that no worker could go on retirement now with this situation because they would suffer if they tried it.

One of the workers, who identified herself as Kemi, told our correspondent that she and many of her colleagues trekked an average of six kilometers everyday to and from their places of work.

Despite going through this suffering, she added that they have not been paid a dime since October 2014.

The media aide to the governor, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, promised to send the position of his principal on the protest. He was yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/osun-workers-protest-non-payment-of-five-months-salaries/

This is quite unfortunate, its so obvious that our leaders aren't sincere.

I hope the best candidate wins this election.

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IsaAbubakar:
Oshiomole is a scallywag

Gej till 2019

Hope you know who Osun State governor is?

Another "progressive" state . Your money is in tinubu's acc . GEJ till 2019!!!

is this the type of change they want to bring to Nigeria??

God will disgrace all of them by 28th March.


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i suppose dey dat protest oooo.... i dey come

Five months.....

Una get strong mind ooo, how you come dey survive.
Chai Chai

This is not the change I seek

Now, this is CHANGE!

same fools that were jubilating when the court declared their scaly wag of a governor the winner of the election.




This is the change you guys asked for... stick with it.

The Osun situation is a sorry case. Majority are full of regrets over salary and pension wahala.

I'm sure the workers are pdp paid agents......OSUN is enjoying the change they seeked for, the next will be River state workers, all of Una should wait for the change oh .....how was ur day Jare

i need source,pictures to believe.ok i ve seen it..But this pdp propaganda.

Dahjhi:
bro you tried oo.. So u just fabbed the pics on this post and con create ur own post.. Nice but not perfect job..
https://www.nairaland.com/2188448/osun-state-workers-protests-unpaid

Maybe you didn't see the timing, I created the post first and later saw the pics somewhere online and brought it in.....I then put a source na, the mods here didnt carry me to FP last last na