Minimum wage: ‘I will sack you if you don’t report to work’ – Ebonyi gov tells striking workers

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Francis Nwifuru, the governor of Ebonyi State, has given state employees a 72-hour notice to return to work or risk being fired.

After they were fired from their positions, the governor also threatened to replace them.

Nwifuru’s action came after the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ebonyi State section, went on a seven-day warning strike.

Nwifuru told reporters in his office at the new Government House in Centenary City, Abakaliki, on Monday that the state government owes no employees.

According to him, the state government has already begun paying the minimum salary of N75,000.

Due to the state’s failure to implement the new minimum wage, the NLC in Ebonyi State began a seven-day warning strike on Sunday.

But in response to the strike, Nwifuru stated, “If you don’t go to work, not only that I will not pay you salary, but I will replace you within 72 hours in your office.

“If I don’t see you in your office, consider yourself sacked. So far I am not guilty, I am not owing you.

“I am paying you what is supposed to be paid. And according to the agreement and the Constitution, I am not owing you. If you don’t go to work within 72 hours I will replace you.

“And I have called the state chairman of the Civil Service Commission. I have directed all the commissioners to go to their offices. All the agencies, all the departments of government must be in their office and record the people that come to work. And that is the people I will pay through table payment.

“I will pay you by the number of days you attended to your duty in your office. If you don’t want to come to work, you will forget about the state government.”

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