Pay our salaries, others, parastatal workers tell Ugwuanyi

Workers and pensioners of the Enugu state parastatal have appealed to the governor, Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to pay them their outstanding salaries, pensions as well as gratuities.
The parastatal involved are: Enugu state Council of Arts and Culture; Enugu state Printing and Publishing Company (ESPPC), publishers of Daily Star Newspapers; Enugu state Tourism Board; Enugu state Rural Electrification Board (REB); Enugu state Rural Water and Sanitation Agency (ENRUWASA) and Enugu State Library Board.
The following people signed the passionate letter from different parastatal.
They are: Uche Eneja, ESPPC; Comrade Cyril Ugwu, Tourism Board; Ignatius MBA, state Library Board; and Ugochi Okeke, Arts and Culture.
In a passionate appeal letter the affected workers wrote to Governor Ugwuanyi captioned: “Appeal for payment of arrears of salaries, pensions and gratuities to serving and retired workers of Enugu state parastatal/integration of workers and pensioners into their parent ministries,” they said not only that the outstanding salaries and pensions be paid, also those already serving should be integrated into the relevant ministries.
They reminded the governor that he had promised since 2015 to reintegrate them into the ministries to no avail.
“Your Excellency, may we draw your attention to your earlier approval sometime in September 2015 for the integration of these affected parastatal into the core service for which a committee was set up to verify the workers.
We verily understand that the report of that committee has been submitted to government, but we are yet to know the outcome of the Integration Committee,” the workers said.
They also reminded him that their sister parastatal had been integrated into the ministries and were enjoying their salaries and other emoluments and wondered why theirs would be different.
“We wish to equally refer your Excellency to the fact that some parastatals owned by Enugu state government namely: Enugu Sports Council; Enugu State Agricultural Development Programme (ENADEP); Enugu State Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA); Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) to mention but a few, have been integrated into the civil service system and their pensions are being paid by the office of the state Head of Service.
We equally deserve the same treatment because what is good for the goose is also good for the gander,” the letter read in part.
The irate workers pointed out that they were passing through hardship “if the masquerade situation is not amended.” “Your Excellency, the workers and pensioners of these pensioners of these Enugu parastatal have been dying in silence.
We are passing through excruciating hardship occasioned by the nonpayment of our lingering arrears of salaries, pensions, gratuities and other entitlements.
Some parastatal have not enjoyed leave allowance since 1996.