Date: 2016-08-24

The Kwara state government yesterday cleared the air on the rumour circulating that the state government received more than one bail out since the inception of this present regime, declaring that "it is not owing the core civil servants in the state".

It also urged people in the state to disregard all sorts of rumour that the anti government activists are spreading around.

Reacting to the peaceful protest of Nigeria Labour Congress, the Special Adviser to the Kwara state governor on Labour Matters, Comrade Bisi Fakayode stressed that the state government make the state workers their utmost priority and had been trying all its possible best to ensure that crisis became something of the past.

He noted that the increment in last month allocation was the augmentation of budget adding that the rumour going around the public must be corrected in order not to incite the people against the state government.

He also assured that labour in the state would continue to gain the support of the state government, while their request would get immediate attention and would be addressed without any delay. He also added that the state government was almost rounding up the biometric and screening exercise stressing that after the biometric exercise, all hands will be on deck.

He noted that labour had been carried along in all the activities of the state government including JAAC, and that every month at the JAAC meeting the labour was fully represented.

He commended the labour union for their doggedness, patience and endurance towards the state government and urged them to continue to cooperate with the state government to benefit from the dividends of democracy.

Also speaking, the state vice chairman of ALGON in Mr. Babatunde Abdulsalam, assured that ALGON would convened meeting with immediate effect and come up with solution at each local government level.

Speaking earlier, the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Yekini Kareem Agunbiade noted that they convened due to the killing of two of its national members by the police in Nassarawa state, some were injured and still at the hospital, and the outstanding arrears of salaries of workers in the state.

Source: HeraldNews