Ajaero: NLC will fight any attempt to delay salaries of Rivers workers

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Ajaero: NLC will fight any attempt to delay salaries of Rivers workers
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Joe Ajaero, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has criticised the court order stopping the disbursement of financial allocations to the state.

Joe Ajaero, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress , has criticised the court order stopping the disbursement of financial allocations to Rivers state.In October, a federal high court in Abujathe Central Bank of Nigeria from further releasing financial allocations to the Rivers state government.

Abdulmalik held that Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers state, was wrong to have presented the state’s 2024 Appropriation Bill to a five-member assembly “that was not properly constituted”.Ajaero said workers in River state must receive their salaries promptly, adding that the organised labour will oppose any delay.

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