Ongoing construction work was literally suspended for hours on Wednesday, as members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) staged a protest at the site of
the new headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States in Lugbe, Federal Capital Territory.
Despite the disruption, the management of the construction company neither addressed the protesters nor responded to the allegations raised by Labour. According to Ugboaja, the Chinese company engaged the workers on an ad hoc basis with no condition of service attached or any welfare or medical services in place.
Regarding the demise of the driver, Ugboaja said: “Mrs Ruth Augustine migrated with her husband and family to Abuja to come and earn a living. Now the man, in a bid to help build the ECOWAS Secretariat, has ended up six feet down, leaving his poor widow to face the vagaries of life with no pension, no gratuity, no food, no water, and no explanation of where help will come from.
“He would work from Monday until Sunday. I asked him whether they gave him bonuses for the overtime and extra work he was doing. He said no. My husband would work from morning till night with no food, and he would not be allowed to come home. Even when he returned home, he would not stay up to an hour before rushing back to the site,” the woman lamented.
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