GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State, weekend, assured workers in the state that their welfare would remain the priority of the present administration.
Represented by his deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe, the governor pledged that every promise made to workers by the present government at one point or the other must be fulfilled.
He noted that the diverse concerns raised by the workers would be looked into with a view to resolving them.
Meantime, the workers expressed their determination for improved welfare packages.
The workers made their feelings known in a joint address of the Nigerian Labour Congress,NLC, and Trade Union Congress,TUC, as read by the state Chairman of NLC, Comrade Ikechukwu Nwafor in this year’s Workers’ Day celebration at Ebonyi State Township Stadium, Abakaliki.
“Your Excellency, you would recall that the overwhelming support of the civil/public servants of Ebonyi, you were promoted from Deputy Governor to Executive Governor in May 2015.
Since then, we have been looking forward to our members’ deserved promotions which became due in January,2015, but to no avail,” the workers lamented.
The workers, therefore, demanded for the immediate release of the 2015 promotion results while sincere efforts should commence for the 2015 promotion exercise.
They accused the Governor of sacking the workers of the defunct Ebonyi State Environment Protection Agency barely 13 days after a statewide broadcast made repeated assurances of not disengaging any worker in the state employ.
The workers, however, called on the governor to reverse the decision and re-instate the sacked workers into state workforce.
They described as unacceptable the situation where Chairman and the members of state Civil Service Commission seem not to know their responsibility and functions and expectations of workers and maintained that any top public servant who sleeps on his or her duties shall be opposed with an organized protest.
They accused the Governor of sacking the workers of the defunct Ebonyi State Environment Protection Agency barely 13 days after in a statewide broadcast made repeated assurance not to disengage any worker under the state employ.
The workers however, called on the Governor to reverse the decision and reinstate and absorb the sacked workers into state workforce.
They also demanded that arrears of pensions and gratuities, delay in the payment of monthly pensions and absence of State Pension Board should be addressed.
The workers called on the state government to effect the salary structure of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria in Ebonyi state as well as the implementation of the collective agreement entered with the union in the month of February,2015 in respect of enforcement of the Federal High Court judgment on financial autonomy of the judiciary with extant provisions of section 121 (3) of the 1999 constitution.
Among the array of concerns raised by workers against the Governor and government of Ebonyi state, they never failed to ask the Governor to fulfill his 2015 electioneering campaign promise to workers of implementation of the 100 percent minimum wage salary across board if elected as according to them “promise is a debt and the you made the promise without any condition.
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