Adamawa workers unpaid for 27 months

No less than 800 individuals recruited by Adamawa government in 2014 as hospital cleaners, security men, drivers, record keepers, lab and theater specialists have cried out that they have not been paid for 27 months. 

The workers, who addressed newsmen on

Monday in Yola, said none of them has been paid since they were employed.

They needed the state Governor to specifically intercede to end their sufferings. 

Representative of the laborers, Mallam Ibrahim Auwal, said they had complained to Ministry of Health and a council was set up. 

"We were screened by a board of trustees which recover our perpetual and pensionable occupation letter and replaced it with transitory arrangement. 

"We were given individual subhead number with the assurance that we would be caught in September compensation, however report contacting us is that the voucher of September pay to be paid for the current week did exclude us. 

"We need Governor Bindow to mediate in this matter to end our sufferings as we know that we were caught in the rescue cash gathered by the state government," Auwal said. 

He noticed that them 836 containing security, drivers, record managers, theater and Laboratory orderlies had the ability to ground exercises in government healing centers if their situation was not went to. 

"Specialists and Nurses are being paid while we are being disregarded; government needs to realize that in the event that we go on strike there will be no work in the healing centers. 

"On the off chance that we don't work, there will be no affirmation in doctor's facilities." 

He faulted the panel set up to check them for making more perplexity by discarding the names of 173 individuals and adding other new names to the rundown. 

"We are 836 however the council after the screening discarded the names of 173 individuals and again proceeded to present the rundown of 998 individuals making more perplexity as the Commissioner of Health declined to sign prompting the setting up of another board of trustees to investigate the protestation." 

An official source in the Ministry of Health said the service had done the needful and that "everything is presently with the Ministry of Finance who ought to pay them." 

Endeavors to get the Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Mohammed Sali, to remark on the matter did not yield result as he was said to be away while his GSM line was not reachable.