Strike Looms As Workers Block Nassarawa Deputy Governor’s Convoy Over Unpaid Salaries

Expressing dissatisfactions, workers in the Doma Local Govern Area of Nassarawa State on Friday staged a protest over the Non-payment of their three months’ arrears and the alleged deduction of about N20 million from their salaries by the Federal Mortgage Housing Scheme.

It was learnt that the aggrieved workers blocked the convoy of the Deputy Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, who is an indigene of Doma.

Reacting to this on Friday, the embattled council chairman, Mr.Rabo Sani, had told the workers that the state government was working round the clock to address their predicament but however, the protesting workers would not even listen and hence they barricaded the road.

Speaking further, the council chairman blamed his predecessors for the debt, saying during the administration there were several illegal employment of civil servants and this too worsened the situation.

He said, “I did not employ a single civil servant, but my predecessors made a mistake by employing over 500 civil servants.”

On the missing Federal Mortgage Housing fund, he said “The money of Federal Mortgage Housing fund is not missing. Rather we borrowed the money to pay staff salaries, saying that all the Union leaders were aware of the transaction,”

“What I’m saying, in essence, is that there was a consultation and agreement before we arrived at that.”

He said the 13 Local Government Councils of the state needed a sum of N2.1 billion to settle two months of staff salaries.