Rivers state Workers and Pensioners Protest Non-Payment of Salaries and Arrears
Rivers state civil servants and pensioners, on Wednesday, trooped to the State Secretariat in Port Harcourt to protest the non-payment of their salaries and pension arrears by the state government.
According to reports, Workers at the secretariat did not respond to anyone who needed their services and they also caused a gridlock for some minutes.
The State Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners in Rivers State, Joseph Agbo, said that the state government had not paid the them in two months while the pensioners were owed five months pension arrears.
“Pension is a right and not a privilege. Before the governor came on board, salaries of civil servants and pensioners were regular, but all these are no more.
“We have, on six occasions, had demonstrations in the past over the anomalies and our members are dying without getting their entitlements.”
