Pay workers With ECA allocation – NLC tells Governors

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called on states governments owing arrears of salaries and pension of workers to use the opportunity offered by the outcome of a meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors to use their allocations from the Excess Crude Account to offset the outstanding salaries and arrears of pension.

This call was made by the General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson. He added that the agreement reached between the President and the governors in their meeting last week gave them the opportunity to offset the salaries owed workers in some of the states of the federation if they are to place their priorities well.

Ozo-Eson, stated this in a telephone interview with The Punch on Monday, adding that the organised labour was continuing with the negotiations in the states where workers are owed months of salary arrears.

According to him, the NLC had made a submission on the issue of the need to pay the outstanding salaries and pension arrears to the transition committee and would continue to mount pressure until the workers were paid.

He said: “The situation is such that some of the states which are not owing salaries are owing pension arrears and we are pushing for the payment of all these in the individual states.

“We are constantly reversing the lists as we negotiate. The President held a meeting with the state governors last week where an agreement was reached to release some resources to them from the Excess Crude Account.

“We expect them to take advantage of that agreement to put their priorities right and defray some of these debts.”

The NLC scribe said that the issue of the failure of states to pay workers’ salaries would be tabled alongside other issues in the next National Administrative Council meeting of the NLC scheduled for Wednesday.

“Industrial actions were embarked upon to press for the payment of the arrears of pension and salaries in some of the states with support from the headquarters of the NLC.

“Negotiations were made; others are still ongoing; we have made our submissions to the transition committee and we are still pressing on.

“We have scheduled a regular meeting of our National Administrative Council for Wednesday. That issue and a number of other important issues would be discussed in that meeting,” he said.

According to him, workers in Osun State were still embarking on strike because of lack of commitment on the part of the state government to pay salaries arrears owed workers in the state

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