NLC succumbs, agrees with Kogi govt on 80% April salary

THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Kogi State chapter and the Kogi State government at a meeting have agreed on 80 per cent pay for the month of April.

It will be recalled that the organised labour had earlier insisted that nothing short of full salary for workers would be acceptable at several meetings that ended in a deadlock with the government team.

Already, workers in the state have started receiving payment alert of 80 per cent on Wednesday.

The meeting between labour and government was occasioned by the state government’s earlier plan to pay 50 per cent salary to state workers, a condition the labour rejected. This, however, prompted government to shift ground, pleading to pay seventy-five per cent as of Monday,  April 4, 2020.

At the meeting held at government house, the organised labour led by Comrade Onu Edoka stuck to its guns, insisting that there was no justification for payment of a percentage to Kogi workers.

The reasons for the slash in the salary of workers, according to sources was hinged on the state’s inability to draw overdraft to pay salary, a practice that has been on over a period.

The indebtedness over time according to government sources runs to N4.8 billion, a situation that led to the bank swallowing the March 2020 statutory allocation paid in April.

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, government sources said the new CBN guidelines do not permit the granting of a huge overdraft, the reason it is difficult for the bank to grant the same gesture to the state government as enjoyed in the past.

 

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