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After Zenith, workers give in to Fayose, suspend strike
After four weeks of staying off work, Civil servants in Ekiti State, Friday, suspended their strike following the signing of an agreement with the state government.
At a ceremony in Ado-Ekiti, the state government and the central labour unions agreed to a seven-point deal.
This is coming on the heels of stories that made the round that a branch manager of Zenith Bank plc went on his knees to beg Fayose over controversies of whether or not the bank contributed to fund Fayose’s governorship campaign.
At the meeting with the striking workers, the state government was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Dr Mrs Modupe Alade, the Head of Service, Dr Gbenga Faseluka and the Chief of Staff, Chief Dipo Anisulowo while lavour was represented by the Chairman, Joint Negotiating Council, Comrade Oladipo Johnson, the State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Ade Adesanmi and State Chairman of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Comrade Odunayo Adesoye.
The state government and labour agreed, among other things that the state government should within seven days conclude its request with commercial banks to restructure personal loans granted public servants with a view to giving them relief from loan repayment; payment of January 2016 salary immediately and the payment of February salary as soon as Budget Support Fund is available.
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Others were giving priority to government’s obligations to public servants, payment of September 2014 salary of primary school teachers as well as Leave Bonus of local government employees.
It was also agreed that N10 million be made available monthly to gradually defray outstanding gratuities, release the report of the 2015 staff verification exercise and making monthly provision for capacity building of public servants.
Speaking after the signing of the agreement, the Head of Service, Dr Gbenga Faseluka, said the gap in the payment of salaries arose following the understanding between labour and government last September that the state’s resources and statutory allocations were no longer adequate to pay salaries and there was need to merge two allocations to pay a month’s salary.
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