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Workers of Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ISOPADEC) on Tuesday, took to the streets of Owerri, the Imo State capital, demanding for the return of their salary scale.
DAILY POST gathered that the protesting staff also demanded that their monthly salary be paid as at when due.
The leader of the delegation and chairman of the ISOPADEC workers, Chinedu Awuzie, while speaking to the press, said the ill treatment meted on them by the government was undeserved.
According to him, “the government has frustrated us enough. During our last protest in 2020, 15 of us including a pregnant woman were arrested and detained for 35days when the court granted us bail.
Okorocha stated this while hosting less privileged Nigerian Muslims in his private office in Abuja, on Tuesday.
The former Governor of Imo State said Buhari must address injustice and tackle poverty in order to restore calm.
“I will comfortably say 75% are not happy at this moment. There is nothing productive that can come from Nigeria for as long as this alarming number remains unhappy.
“Whatever we can use to guarantee their happiness as a nation, we should do that.
“You cannot solve a problem unless you know the cause.
“The cause of our Nigerian problem lies in injustice and poverty. The quicker this government moves to address injustice, the better it is to reduce the level of anger on the nation,” Okorocha said.
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The Imo State Government has announced the sacking of 108 workers of the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission “illegally employed” by the administration of a former governor of the State, Rochas Okorocha.
A statement issued in Owerri by Damian Oparah, who is the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Managing Director of ISOPADEC, Charles Orie, stated that the oil firm took the decision in its on going staff rationalisation and restructuring programme.
The statement explained that in sacking the affected workers, the commission relied on a report submitted by Romanus Ezeogu-led Committee.
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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.