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Daily Post Nigeria
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Staff of the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Commission (ISOPADEC), have demanded for their salary arrears, accusing the Hope Uzodinma-led government of suffocating them to death.
The aggrieved staff, who took to the streets of Owerri, the Imo State capital on Tuesday, were seen displaying placards with various inscriptions such as, ‘govt should pay us our many months salary arrears’, ‘govt is suffocating us to death,’ ‘no salary, no work.”
The protesters, according to reports, barricaded the secretariat of the commission at new Owerri, singing various war songs.
The leader of the delegation who spoke to journalists, said that the staff had had their worst times since the creation of the commission in 2006.