{"id":112530,"date":"2019-05-01T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112530"},"modified":"2019-05-01T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T12:28:33","slug":"may-day-how-gov-bello-assaulted-kogi-workers-opposition-party-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112530","title":{"rendered":"May Day: How Gov. Bello assaulted Kogi workers – Opposition party alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC) has said the non-payment of three years workers\u2019 salaries by the Kogi State Government is a democratic assault on workers.<\/p>\n

DPC National Chairman, Rev. Olusegun Peters disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja ahead of 2019 Workers\u2019 Day celebrations.<\/p>\n

According to Peters, DPC feels the pains of great workers in Kogi state who have been denied three years of hard earned salaries by the State Government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a democratic assault on civil servants in Kogi, particularly pensioners many of whom have died out of frustration and depression.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a labour friendly party, if elected in November 2019, DPC will clear all outstanding salaries, pensions and entitlements within three months and sustain regular payment of salaries and gratuities in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party will also reform the state\u2019s Civil Service for total transmogrification of workers,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

He said DPC recalls with pride the role Nigerian workers played in ushering the nation\u2019s independence in 1960 as well as their role in resisting military dictatorship, oppression and suppression of the citizenry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe labours of our heroes past shall not be in vain.<\/p>\n

\u201cDPC urges governments at all levels to pay the new minimum wage of N30, 000 with effect from May.<\/p>\n

\u201cPaying the minimum wage is the minimum that could be done for the great Nigerian workers as they aspire to build a decent, prosperous and egalitarian democratic society.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe National leadership of DPC has commenced stakeholder\u2019s meetings in Kogi and Bayelsa states with a view to fielding credible governorship candidates for the November poll in the states,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Peters further said that the party welcomes resourceful, purposeful and visionary aspirants who intend to contest for the gubernatorial election on its platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time to effect a change in the Kogi and Bayelsa Government House,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC) has said the non-payment of three years workers\u2019 salaries by the Kogi State Government is a democratic assault on workers. DPC National Chairman, Rev. Olusegun Peters disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja ahead of 2019 Workers\u2019 Day celebrations. According to Peters, DPC feels the pains of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[499,506],"class_list":["post-112530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-kogi","tag-yahaya-bello"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}