Workers in Oyo state on Monday protested in Ibadan, the state capital, against the failure of Governor Seyi Makinde-led government to offset their unpaid allowances and provide palliatives for them.
The protesters have shut down the state Secretariat at Agodi.
It was gathered that the aggrieved state workers locked the state secretariat and demanded an upward review of pension allowances and payment of salary deduction, saying in one of the placards they carried that “Our full salary is not enough for our transportation to our place of work.”
It was reported that those who are carrying out the protest are workers and pensioners from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP), Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and other affiliates.
Their union leaders and workers are also demanding payment of leave bonuses, gratuities to retirees who have stagnated since the year 2021 and release of promotion letters for the years 2021 and 2022, Politics Nigeria reports.
It was however gathered that no government official had addressed the protesting workers at the time of filing this report.