PDP Tasks Niger to Pay Workers to End Strike
The strike declared by organised labour in Niger State entered the second day yesterday paralysing government activities, just as the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party tasked Governor Abubakar Sani Bello to pay the “legally agreed minimum wage” to the civil servants.
It was gathered that patients’ family members have decided to patronise private clinics to take care of their sick ones, while water vendors have been making brisk business following skeletal operation by officials of the state’s water board. Meanwhile, PDP in Niger State in its reaction about the dispute between the workers and the government said: “It is shocked that Governor Bello, who almost a year ago boasted that he’s ready to pay the new minimum wage of N30,000 passed by the National Assembly and signed into law by Mr. President, has failed to do so.”
PDP, in a statement its Chairman in Niger State, Tanko Beji, alleged: “It is regrettable that Governor Bello has abandoned the state and this is Day 2 of the strike action that has completely paralysed all hospitals and essential services in a state and which has already grounded the state economically to its knees due to cluelessness, pilferage and governance failures in the last five years.”
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