By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz
Yola
Workers in the public sector in Adamawa state have warned the government that they were running out of patience over their unpaid salaries and other entitlements.
The state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Dauda Maina, told workers rally to mark the May Day celebration that government should address all the problems connected with salaries and wages of its employers with immediate effect to avert possible industrial dispute.
The labour leader lamented that almost half of the total Adamawa workforce are without salaries for the past four months.
Other problems affecting the workers, according to the NLC chairman, were non- payment of salaries to over 900 junior staff employed by the health services management board since November 2014, non-payment of salaries to medical and health workers in the past five months; delay in the payment of salaries of primary school teachers for the past two years; 21 staff of Adamawa state owed newspapers, the Scope employed since 2014 have been left without salaries and non funding of the state owned media houses among others.
Comrade Dauda Maina, however, lauded the state government for its effort in the construction of township roads and networking in the local government council areas.
Reacting to the threat of the organised labour, the Deputy Governor of the state, Mr. Martins Babale, promised that government would look into the complaints of the workers with a view to addressing them soonest.
The Deputy Governor, who represented Governor Muhammadu Jibrilla, lamented that the issue of unpaid salaries was not limited to Adamawa state alone, even as it was occasioned by the “present has economic realities facing the nation.”