Ekiti Workers Demand Unpaid Salaries, Gives Fayose 14-day Ultimatum

Gov. Ayo Fayose

The State Government workers in Ekiti State has demanded for their unpaid salaries, and has given Governor Ayo Fayose a fourteen-day ultimatum to clear all salary arrears and pension of retirees.

The workers under the aegis of Ekiti State Organized Labour, said that Fayose government must clear all arrears of workers’ entitlements before a new government takes office on October 16.

Gov. Ayo Fayose

According to the Daily Post, Ekiti State Organized Labour, statement was contained in a bulletin that was issued on Saturday, July 21.

The workers demands is not limited to salaries, but also includes payment of over seven months deduction, payment of nine month arrears to local government workers and primary school teachers.

They are also demanding the payment of eleven months and six months pensions to local government pensioners and state government pensioners respectively.

The Ekiti State Organized Labour bulletin reads:

“Workers in the public service of Ekiti State have been suffering over the years with nobody to rescue them in relation to payment of salaries, pensions and other benefits.

“The import of this is that the condition of service of an average worker in Ekiti is deplorable or poor despite the huge funds allocated to Ekiti State from the Federation Account between 2014 to date.

“In view of the present development in the state occasioned by the result of the governorship election, it has become necessary to assess the implication on welfare of workers vis-à-vis the arrears of unpaid salaries.

“In order to avoid a situation whereby the incoming government may wish to foot drag on the payment of the arrears of salaries on the premise that the organized labour was inept to the payment of same by the outgoing government thus amounting t a huge financial burden on the new government.

“The state government is hereby given a 14-day ultimatum to meet these demands.”

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