The Workers Plight of the Unpaid Salaries.
Many Nigerian workers suffer from the lack of payment of their salaries which doesn’t only lead to failure to meet their daily welfare needs and the needs of the rest of their family members and this has broken many homes, death of some due not being able to pay for medical bills and in most cases house rents.
This seems to mean nothing to the organizations or companies the unpaid workers work for.
Recently, the attention of Aspheric News representative was called upon as regards a government organization in the federal capital territory, Abuja that that doesn’t pay its worker on time and that most times they get paid after being held 5 to 8months salary or sometimes more.
According to the source who said we shouldn’t disclose his name said: ”This kind of unfair treatment of the none payment of salaries timely has been ongoing for the past 3yrs and for some more than 6yrs. He added.
“We can’t continue like this, we have families to feed, we hardly get paid and it is very painful that we always have to beg to be paid.
“We suffer, our family suffer, and the most painful part of it all is that the organization doesn’t even care how we feed, nor how we pay our children’s school fees and house rent.
“We were owed from December 2019 now we are in May, 2020 but they’ve refused to pay us our salaries.
He further said that: “I am speaking on behalf of the rest of the people whom we work together under the same boss.
“There are several others who don’t get paid equally like us but who are under different bosses and departments.
They are always giving excuses and most times is either they say contractors are not paying, or they come up with other issues.
“A week to the lockdown, they told us they’d pay us, but didn’t and later told us that the MD of the company that is executing a project under the organization had a handshake with the Governor of Bauchi State who was said to have contracted COVID-19 and for that reason he also was quarantined.
The enraged worker said that when the lockdown was eased they have also been going to work, but their boss still kept dribbling them and giving them more and more excuses.
He then said: “Please we need the help of the federal government in this regards to end the plight of many workers whose salaries are always being delayed for many months and sometimes years before they get paid.
“It is not fair, that workers who have families and other needs would not be given their salaries on time. He added.
We the Asphericnews.com are therefore calling on President Muhammadu Buhari and the FCT Minister to please come to the aid of workers who suffer from lack of payment of their salaries.
Story by: Ayooluwa Joshua