Niger Delta
We’re Dying Of Hunger – Ministry Of Niger Delta Workers Lament 17-month Unpaid Salaries
Agency Report
Some workers working at the Calabar office of the Ministry of Niger Delta have lamented the non-payment of their salaries, which they said has brought misery upon them.
According to one of the workers who spoke to our reporter they’re being owed 17-month salaries.
He added that they had become beggars and were dying of hunger.
The workers called on the recently appointed Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Umana Umana, to come to their rescue.
“We were employed directly by the ministry in 2015 as janitors. We were deployed to all the nine states making up the Niger Delta region,” the source said.
“Though some of us were later asked to be under consultants but we here in Calabar are still under the Ministry.
“We are currently being owed 17-month salaries, and the situation is getting out of hand. I’m also student of University of Calabar, my father is late and I’m the only child of my mum, they should please pay me because it’s from my salary that I do taking care of my mum.
“Right now, I’m hopeless, as at risk of dropping out of school because of debts. I think we’re being neglected because we are just janitors. We’re dying of hunger.”
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