On Thursday, protesting employees from Plateau State’s Lantang North Local Government Area shut down the council secretariat.
Some of the irate employees who spoke with ANAEDOONLINE.NG in Jos claimed they made the decision to shut down the secretariat to voice their complaints regarding the more than four-month delay in the payment of their salaries.
A worker who wished to remain anonymous said, “Local government employees of Langtang North LGA in large numbers embarked on a peaceful demonstration this morning (Thursday) to air their grievances over the Local Government Management team’s failure to pay them for six months of salary.
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“The council secretariat was closed under the instruction of the National Union of Local Government Employee. All offices were closed, both local and federal, including the judiciary offices.
“Roads leading in and out of Langtang North were also closed for several hours and we are not ready to stop the protest unless the government acts on our demands,” she added.
The President of NULGE in the state, Makwi Yohanna, also confirmed the development.
He said, “I don’t blame the workers because a hungry man is an angry man .
“How do you expect them to be happy when the workers have not been paid for more than four months? It is not as if the money is not there . From our investigation, the money for the payment of the workers salaries is intact.
“But the situation is calm now and we are appealing to the Ministry of Local Government to intervene in the matter so that all encumberances, including court injunction stopping the payments of the salaries to the workers, are resolved.”
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