Labour leader tasks FG over unpaid salaries

A labour unions chieftain in Delta State, Comrade Williams Akporeha, yesterday, called for urgent measures by relevant government agencies to offset the unpaid salaries of over five years owed workers of the Delta State Steel Company (DSC), Aladja.

Comrade Akporeha who spoke to journalists in Warri, frowned at the non-payment of the salaries, adding that: “It is said that DSC workers have become the sacrificial objects for the bureaucratic ritual between Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and the Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE)”.

Noting that the plight of the DSC workers had assumed a pathetic dimension, Comrade Akporeha said: “At the moment we lost count of the workers that had died in DSC as a result of federal government attitude towards their welfare. It is about time to hold someone accountable for what is happening to DSC workers.”

According to him: “Several months after taking over the new management of DSC, Premium Steel and Mines Limited is yet to commence operations and other activities that will enable them clear the backlog of workers’ salaries and allowances due to endless protocols by government agencies involved.”

He threatened that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), would soon mobilise workers on industrial action to support DSC workers if the federal government failed to intervene.

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