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May 1, 2019
The Organised Labour in Nasarawa State on Wednesdaymarked this year’s Workers Day with a call on the state government to lift theembargo it placed on in-service training for civil servants.
The call was jointly made by the Nigeria LabourCongress chairman Yusuf Iya, his Trade Union Congress counterpart MohammedUmar-Doma, while addressing the workers in Lafia.
According to the duo, the state government placed anembargo on in-service programmes for civil servants since 2017, via anexecutive order.
Iya, in his speech, specifically noted that noworker had been given approval for in-service training since the embargo was placedin 2017.
He regretted that no civil servant had been trainedin the past two years “even when N60 million was being budgeted each year forin-service, and another N10 million for workers week”.
He further called on the state government to pay thetwo years balance of the 50 percent salaries owed local government workers andretirees before the end of the tenure of the current government.
Similarly, Umar-Doma, TUC Chairman, regretted thatthe salary of Gabriel Agbashi, one of the union leaders, had not been paid forone year, and called on the government to reverse such decision.