‘Ekiti turns into a failed state under Fayose’ – NLC reports

The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) has guided government workers in Ekiti State to start an indefinite ‘stay at home’ strike today. So also, the Chairman of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Ekiti State, Kolawole Olaiya, has said that the failure of the Governor Ayo Fayose administration to pay wokers’ salary means that ‘Ekiti has turned into a failed state’.

In a joint statement signed by NLC Secretary, Comrade Olayemi OJP, JNC Secretary Blessing Oladele and TUC secretary Adebayo J. A, the Organized Labor helped Fayose to remember the 48 hours’ ultimatum given to him to pay all deductions and five months pay salaries which expired yesterday.

Talking with columnists in Ado Ekiti, Olaiya said prevailing shortage of allocation from the Federation Account was insufficient reason not to pay specialists, that unless the state government acquiesced to the requests of work by midnight of yesterday, industrial activity would start today.

Olaiya said, “Every government is created for the security and welfare of the people and it is criminal for any government not to pay its workers their salaries. A government that cannot pay for five months is a failed government.”