Kwara water Corp staff protest in Ilorin
over non payments of salaries
December 08, 2015 at 5:58 pm in News
By Demola Akinyemi
ILORIN-Scores of staff of Kwara State Water
Corporation in Ilorin commenced three days warning
strike Tuesday over non payments of their three
months salaries which led to the untimely death of
five of them.
The angry staff locked the main gates to their
expansive office along Sulu Gambari road Ilorin,and
displayed various placards to express their
grievances.
Spokesman of the workers, Mr. Taiwo Oladimeji,who
spoke with journalists said the action became
necessary because they have run out of patience.
He lamented that five of them have died as a result of
the non payment of salaries while majority of the
dams across the state are no longer functioning,
thereby resulting to their inability to supply water to
the residents as expected.
Oladimeji also called for the removal of the General
Manager who he accused of gross incompetence.
According to him,”No fewer than five staff of the
corporation have died due to non payment of
salaries.”
“They are owing us three months salaries;
cooperative arrears eight months; deductions of union
dues is one year and four months; deduction of
N3,000 minimum wage two years; deduction for the
building of mosque.”
“From today we have commenced three days warning
strike after the warning strike and our salaries are not
paid we will embark on indefinitely.”
Similarly,Issa Olusesan (negotiating committee
member) explained how every effort they made to
make the management see reason failed which led to
the warning strike.
His words,”This morning we are protesting against
non payment of salaries, cooperative deductions,
promotion and N3,000 salaries for the senior civil
servants.”
“Before now we have gone through a lot of negotiation
processes; we have written many letters and given a
lot of ultimatums to no avail. After all these letters
management invited us for series of meetings which
did not yield any positive result.”
He also said that,”The amount being owed us put
together is in the region of N100 million. As we are
demanding for the payment of our salaries we
discovered that a lot of damage has been done to the
ministry of water resources; we no longer have
confidence in our management. We want the General
Manager to be changed. We are putting the gate under
lock and key because we want our problem to be
solved.”

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Scrap the water board. They serve no purpose nationwide. People provide water for themselves. So whats the wage for