Workers of the New Nigerian Newspapers begged the Northern States Governors Forum Chairman and Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong over pending salaries.
The group is demanding payment of their accumulated salaries to save them from the hardship they are going through.
According to the workers, the none payment of salaries which accumulates to 100 months, has led to depression and deaths of over 103 staff awaiting their entitlements.
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The joint union comprising of members of Nigeria Union Of Journalists and National Union Of Printing, Publishing, and Paper Products Union Workers, New Nigerian Chapel, expressed worries over workers’ plights due to non-payment of salaries.
A press statement signed by Comrade Friday Idoko, Funmi Aderinto, Usman Nasidi, and Emmanuel Bello as chairmen and secretaries of the in-house unions decried the slow pace of the process initiated in 2017 to sell assets of the company in order to pay off salary arrears of staff.
According to the statement, some money had been realised from sales of the company’s property but was yet to be disbursed.
The workers hence urged the governor to promptly order the disbursement of the sum to workers of the company to alleviate the hardship they have been subjected to.
The statement read:
“The Joint Workers’ Union of New Nigerian Newspapers in its congress held on Tuesday, October 25, 2022, is appealing to the Chairman of Northern State Governors Forum, His Excellency, Governor Simon Lalong, to expedite action on the settlement of workers entitlements to save them from the present predicaments they have found themselves.
“We are appealing to Governor Simon Lalong as a compassionate leader and head of the Northern States Governors’ Forum to use his good office to put smiles on our faces and those of our families by ordering prompt payment from the available resources realised from sales of the company’s property in order to give hope of survival for us and our children.”
The workers restated that they have been through a lot of hardship with many of their compatriots being ejected by their landlords as many could no longer pay their children’s school fees.
The workers, while they begged said that they had so much confidence in the effective leadership of the governors of the northern states built on selflessness, passion to serve, and commitment to the welfare of their subjects.
Added that it was their collective conviction that their appeal would receive the attention it deserved for prompt payment of their entitlements.
The statement however commended the efforts of the northern governors for ensuring the payment of the company’s pensioners who had worked under the Federal Government.
