A joint action committee of three workers’ unions, which includes the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), in Imo State on Monday submitted a letter
The suspension of a female journalist in Imo State has taken a strange turn., in Imo State on Monday submitted a letter to the Commissioner for Information in the state, Declan Emelumba, disowning Vivian Ottih, a suspended editor with the government-owned IBC Orient FM radio station.
Apart from the NUJ, the Radio, Television, and Theatre Workers Union of Nigeria are part of the committee. So also is the Nigeria Union of Civil Service Secretarial and Stenographic Workers . The committee’s letter to the commissioner was signed by Ike Igbokwe, Chikodi Agu, and Hyginus Nwachukwu, the chairman, secretary, and the treasurer respectively.PREMIUM TIMES spoke with the committee’s secretary, Mr Agu who said the committee was “okay” with what Mrs Ottih wrote, only that “she did not follow due process”.“We are not condemning what she did. If we say we are condemning her, it means the government is not owing us.
Mr Emelumba said the government wanted to pay workers’ salary ‘centrally’ in order to eliminate “ghost workers”, instead of allowing the various establishments to collect bulk money from the state government to pay their staff as was done in the past. The workers are yet to get their salaries, three days after the commissioner spoke with PREMIUM TIMES.
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