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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2017
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• The protesters
Photo: Alexander Okeke
Edo street sweepers
protest unpaid eight-
month salary arrears
Alexander Okere, Benin
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TREET sweepers engaged by the Edo State Waste
Management Board, under a public-private partnership
arrangement, have staged another protest over the non-
payment of their outstanding salaries.
The protesters, who abandoned their morning duties,
lamented that the state government had failed to pay their
entitlements spanning seven months.
Armed with placards, the aggrieved workers marched
through Kings Square, Akpakpava Road, and made a stopover
at the press centre of the Nigerian Union of Journalists before
heading for the Government House in Benin.
The street sweepers had on November 2 taken to the streets
to protest against the non-payment of their seven-month
salary arrears.
One of them, Aigbe Jerry, alleged that the affected workers
had been disengaged on the excuse that the job had been given
to State Employment and Expenditure for Results (SEEFOR),
an initiative for empowerment.
Jerry wondered why the arrears had not beenpaid