Lagos Workers Protest Non Payment Of Salaries

Following the bailout money given to states in order to enable them defrays workers’ salary arrears, it is overt, that some states have decided that theirs should lull at the state’s coffer, in order for it to yield interest. Little wonder, barely 24 hours after midwives marched to Alausa to protest the non-payment of their salaries, hundreds of highway sweepers under the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) shortly after that stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly protesting non-payment of their salary arrears by the state government.

According to them, the proclivity at which the State Government owes them for five months, was described as draconian.  They carried placards which read “We deserve to be paid for our toiling”; “Life is now difficult, save us from poverty”; “Help us, we have suffered much,” among others