Kogi workers beg president Buhari and diasporan indigenes for food, medications as Gov. Bello continues to owe (Details, pics)

Workers in Kogi have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to rescue them from their current hardship resulting from non-payment of their salaries, by sending them food, drugs and other materials.

The workers made the appeal on Wednesday in Lokoja in a statement jointly issued by the state chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council.

Messrs Olakunle Faniyi, Kolawole James and Isah Abubakar, Secretaries of NLC, TUC and JPSNC respectively, signed the statement which was circulated to media houses.

The workers appealed to President Buhari to direct the National Emergency Management Agency and other humanitarian agencies to supply them food and other relief materials.

The civil servants said they were being owed between 11 and 21-month salaries and that the situation had become unbearable.

They urged the Presidency to consider the condition of their children who had been sent out of school because they could no longer pay their school fees.

“The situation of workers in the state is worse than the condition of the Internally Displaced Persons in various camps.
“The agony of the workers is not in any way less than the experiences of victims of natural disasters.

”A situation where workers cannot afford even one meal a day and pay the school fees of their children is already a humanitarian issues.