Women employed as street sweepers in Calabar Municipality and Calabar South Local Government Areas of Cross River on Tuesday protested over the non-payment of their stipends for about four months. THE GUARDIAN reports.
The women, who protested at the entrance of the Governor’s Office in Calabar, had placards with inscriptions such as “pay us our money,” and “we are tired of working without pay”.Information Guide Nigeria
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According to Effiong, “We are here to let the governor know that we have not been paid for four months now; in 2015, they refused to pay us for six months and now they want to go away with our four months salaries.
“Some of us are paid N5,000 monthly others receive N10,000 while those we call wreckers are paid N15,000 a month; we just want them to give us our money before they leave office,” she said.
On her part, Mrs Emana Cobham, another elderly woman, noted that they took so much risk in the course of sweeping the streets.
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