Street sweepers cry out for unpaid six months salaries

The street sweepers, who trooped to the Plateau Government secretariat in their hundreds, said they are being owed since September 2014. “We are paid N8,000 each on monthly basis but we are surprised that our salary was stopped while we are still engaged by the government. “Since last year September we have not received our […]

The street sweepers, who trooped to the Plateau Government secretariat in their hundreds, said they are being owed since September 2014. “We are paid N8,000 each on monthly basis but we are surprised that our salary was stopped while we are still engaged by the government.
“Since last year September we have not received our monthly stipend that we are entitled to due to the job that we do,” one of them said.
Another aggrieved sweeper, while calling on the government to come to their rescue, said the money was her only means of livelihood. “I am a widow with three children and this is what I use in feeding and training them,” she said, adding “I don’t know what is happening to the government this time around, it is about six months that we have not been paid.”  (NAN)