Samuel Ortom said in Makurdi yesterday that a salary syndicate working to destabilize the ongoing workers screening exercise was the cause of the strike action declared by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).
State workers are owed six months salaries, while local government and primary school teachers are owed 11 months.
The governor was in awe as to why labour leaders, who had been involved in the disbursement of all allocations to the state, would suddenly embark on a strike, faking ignorance of the state’s financial situation.
“I smell a rat in the current strike action by workers; I suspect that it might be a ploy to frustrate the ongoing salary verification exercise.
“Upon deeper reflections, I realised that the strike might have been instigated by the same syndicate that was benefiting from the over-bloated salary bill; the group initiated the strike as a strategy to frustrate the verification exercise.”
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