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May 1, 2019
Workers in Cross River have protested the payment ofMay salary on the first day of the month by Governor Ben Ayade.
Ayade has consistently paid the May salary on thefirst day of the month in the last three years of his tenure.
But speaking to journalists, the state chairman ofthe Trade Union Congress,TUC, Clarkson Otu, said workers and the leadership oflabour were unhappy over the early payment of salary.
According to the labour leader, even though thegovernment means well, labour was nonetheless not happy with the situation.
Speaking in a similar vein, the state Chairman ofthe Nigerian Labour Congress,NLC, Ben Ukpepi, decried the early payment of salariesby the state government.
Ukpepi said labour would engage with the governorwith a view to putting an end to early payments of salaries in the state.Meanwhile, Ayade has expressed hisadministration’s readiness to implement the new minimum wage recently passedinto law by President Muhammadu Buhari.