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PDP asks Gov Bello to pay workers as strike paralyses government activities

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Government activities were paralyzed on Thursday following the strike declared by organised labour in Niger state.

This is just as the State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked Governor Abubakar Sani Bello to pay the workers the ‘legally agreed Minimum wage.’

Findings by our correspondent revealed that the strike has started taking its toll on the ordinary man with the absence of Medical Personnel in Public Health Institutions and scarcity of potable water in most communities.

It was gathered also that relations of patients now divert their sick ones to private clinics while water vendors are making a lot of money following skeletal operation by officials of the state water board.

It was learnt that another meeting held between Labour and government representatives on Wednesday to find a solution to the issue was deadlocked.

In the meantime, the Niger state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said that:

“It is shocked that Governor Abubakar Bello who almost a year ago boasted that he is ready to pay the new minimum wage of N30,000 passed by the National Assembly and signed into law by Mr President has failed to do so.”

The party said: “It is regrettable that Governor Sani Bello would allow a Labour dispute about wages and rights of workers to culminate into a total strike action” describing the situation as “a classic case of dereliction of duty.”

The statement signed by Tanko Beji State Chairman of the party said:

“It is regrettable that Governor Bello has abandoned the state and this is Day 2 of the strike action that has completely paralyzed all Hospitals and essential services in a state that is already economically on its knees due to cluelessness, pilferage and Governance failures of the past five years.

” It is against this backdrop that the PDP calls on the Governor and his party to immediately pay workers their legally approved Salaries, provide political and strategic leadership to the Security architecture or immediately resign or the House of Assembly should do the needful.”

Beji also asked the APC government to find solutions to the increasing cases of insecurity in the state which has led to loss of lives and property and displaced many villagers from their ancestral homes.

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