Unpaid Salaries: Labour Party Backs Buhari's Directives

National Secretary of the Labour Party, Kayode Ajulo

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

The National Secretary of the Labour Party, Kayode Ajulo, has described as "appropriate and commendable" President Muhammadu Buhari's directive to states who are owing their workers outstanding salary payments running into months to pay up as a matter of urgency.

Ajulo said in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday that the measure has become necessary since productivity and even national development was dependent on job satisfaction on the part of workers.

He said the lingering dilemma of unpaid salaries by some affected state governments had been a major source of concern to the Labour Party.

"As the last bastion of the Nigerian worker and the masses in general, I find it horrifying that state governments have deprived their workers of their worthy remuneration for as long as six months.”