Staff of Abia State Road Maintenance Agency [ABROMA] has cried out over non-payment of 29 months’ salaries owe them by the government, saying both their General Manager and the State Government is insensitive to their plights.
Speaking in an interview with Abia Facts reporter Chimezie Okoroafor at the Agencies office Headquarters’ recently, a staff of the Agency Mr. Samuel Okwudiri explained that due to non-payment of salary, some of the staff no longer come to work as they see it as penny wise pound foolish, regretting that they now live from hand to mouth ever since.
He lamented that their General Manager Engr. Okochi Okali Oge has not done much to address the situation, wondering how a government that have the interest of her staff at heart can owe salaries for 29 months, saying such is a measure of wickedness.
Mr. Okwudiri stated that for the staff to be alive to their responsibility, their faces must be brightened by the government whose responsibility it is to pay workers’ salaries, adding that the Agency has become a ghost of itself ever since and call on well-meaning Abians to intervene in their plights.
Also speaking, Mr. Emma Nwankwo said he used to come to work from Aba, but that ever since his salaries have being withheld by the government, he had decided to come once in a week due to lack of money.
The ABROMA staff further hinted that he heard that monies have been released since to settle their salaries, saying that his family now resorts to begging just to survive.
He call on the government to as a matter of urgency come to their rescue by directing the GM to clear its debt as things are no longer the way it should be due to lack on the side of the staff.
Abia Facts reporter sought audience with the GM of ABROMA Engr. Okochi Okali Oge to get his own side of the story, but no concrete response was made as he kept postponing the interaction.
More detail of the interaction with other ABROMA staff will be released by tomorrow.
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