Benue council workers shut secretariat amid NULGE strike over unpaid salaries

Activities astatine Gboko Local Government Secretariat successful Benue State came to a halt on Thursday after workers unopen down the assembly premises arsenic portion of the ongoing onslaught enactment directed by the Benue State section of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE).

The workers reportedly locked the main gross of the Secretariat and gathered successful ample numbers to show solidarity with the concern action.

The NULGE president successful Gboko, Comrade John Yongu, who addressed workers astatine the Secretariat, urged them to stay agreed during the strike.

According to the protesting workers, they are yet to person their March and April salaries and person not been fixed immoderate convincing mentation regarding the delay.

The workers lamented that the prolonged wage concern had subjected them to fiscal hardship astatine a clip erstwhile galore Nigerians are already struggling with the economical effects of substance subsidy removal and the rising outgo of living.

Some of the workers besides criticised the medication of Hyacinth Alia, alleging that section authorities employees person continued to face...