Following the non-payment of the April salaries and pension by Kano state government before the Eid-el-Fitr (Sallah), the state chapter of the NLC has called the state government to always plan ahead of time to prevent future occurrence of such incidence.
Similarly, the union urged the State government to as a matter of necessity, devise the means and strategy to ensure saving one month’s salary and Pension ahead, in order not to be solely dependent on FAAC allocation before salary payments could be made.
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This is contained in a statement signed by the state NLC chairman and Acting Secretary, Kabiru Minjibir and Hussaini Buda respectively.
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According to the statement, “This will go along way in safeguarding the name and image of the government as labour-frlendly and caring government; and at the same time boost the morale of the workers for improved service delivery.
“We therefore wish to express our heartfelt sympathy to the entire workers and pensioners for the gloomy and critical low spirit Sallah celebrations arising from the non-payment of April salaries and pension despite the fact that majority depend on it to celebrate and take care of their families.
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” The Congress may not pretend not to know the concerns and frustrations expressed by some workers and pensioners especially on the social media platforms.
“We are aware of the misdirected anger and attacks on labour leaders particularly the ambrellar body of the labour, NLC, all in relations to the non-payment of the salary,” the statement said.
