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The Organized Labour in Kogi State has bowed to pressure by Civil Servants to rescind its decision to deduct #3000 from their salary for the completion of the State Secretariat of the Union.
The Drum Reporters gathered that the Leadership of the Union had plan to deduct the said amount from the salary of workers to complete it’s Secretariat which is already over 90% completed but the Workers described the plan as wicked, corrupt and lack of sympathy to their plight.
They told the Onu Edoka led NLC that any attempt to deduct their salaries after the monthly deduction of check up dues will be met with stiff resistance.
worried by the reaction of Workers, some Civil Servants under the aegis of Concerned Workers, said they have uncovered plots by some mischief makers who made fruitless efforts to malign the person and integrity of Comr. Onuh Edoke, Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress.
The Group in a press statement signed by Comr. Ayodele Obagayi, cautioned the mischief makers from making unsubstantiated allegations of corruption against the NLC Chairman, maintained that the writer and the write up was a figment of imagination, totally laced with concocted and unsubstantiated lies to malign the person of the NLC Chairman in Kogi State and who has been in the vanguard agitating for workers welfare.
The group reiterated that at no time did the workers in the State planned to down tool over alleged move to deduct their salaries for the funding of the Labour House.
The statement reads: ” Since Comrade Onuh Edoka took over the mantle of NLC leadership about seven years ago, the interest of both State and Local Government workers have remained his priority. We are bold to state that on assumption of office during his acceptance speech as the State NLC Chairman, he promised to uphold the confidence reposed in him by ensuring that the welfare of workers remains the top priority of his administration.
