Money matter
no be joke o! Aggrieved workers of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas
Development Commission (DESOPADEC) went unclad on Monday to protest the
alleged
non-payment of their bonuses by the board of the commission.
The workers
accused the state government and management of the agency of maltreating them
by its refusal to pay workers including the controversial 13-month bonus (End
of Year Bonus).
They also said
the management refused to promote and pay retirement entitlements to pensioners
of the commission as well as leave bonuses to workers of the commission since
2015 when the present board assumed office.
The aggrieved
workers promised to continue with their protest until the state government
listened to their demands and ensure that staff welfare was prioritised. They
warned that if by next week their demands were not met, they would occupy
government house and the State House Assembly.
A staff who
spoke under a strict condition of anonymity said, “What we are protesting is
statutory in our engagement later. In 2013 the commission complained that there
is no money and appealed that we should allow our salaries to be slashed by 30
per cent and promised that once things improved it shall be restated but up
till now it has not."
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