Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has revealed that staff of the FCT Administration received their January salaries last Friday.
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Lere Olayinka further stated that the workers have also been paid one month out of the five months’ outstanding wage award arrears.
He made the disclosure in a statement while criticising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for mobilising workers in other sectors for a protest scheduled for Tuesday.
According to Lere Olayinka: “FCTA workers received their January salary last Friday, along with one month’s payment of the five months’ arrears of the wage award.
“Two months out of the five months’ arrears of the wage award have already been paid, with the remaining three months to be paid alongside the February, March, and April salaries.
“But the NLC is mobilising workers in other sectors, who should be at their duty posts, for a protest on Tuesday.
“Meanwhile, the FCTA workers on whose behalf the NLC is organising the protest were at work last Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. They will also be at work tomorrow.
“Also, more than 20 states have stopped paying the wage award or did not implement it at all. The NLC has not done anything. It is the FCT, which is paying and has paid two months out of the five months’ arrears, that is the problem for the NLC.
“Las las, those in the NLC will tell Nigerians what exactly they want from the FCT.”
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