By Amos Okioma
The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees ( NULGE ) regretted that it passed through the most labour unfriendly and devastating administration under the period of the immediate past caretaker committee chairman of the council, Mr Oforji Oboku.
This disclosure and lamentation was made by the chairman of the local government workers union , Comrade Koku Oyoro, while speaking to a select group of journalists in his office in Yenagoa , stressing that in the anals of local government administration in Bayelsa State no administration had been so insensitive and maltreated council workers like the horrible 16 months government of Oforji Oboku, immediate past Care Taker Committee Chairman.
He posited that workers in then council were owed three months salary as at the time Oforji Oboku took over from Chubby Ben- Walson.
“We were owed nine and half months salary. Chubby Ben-Walson owed three while Oforji Oboku owed six and half months” he said.
He therefore called on Bayelsa State governor Seriake Dickson to allow heads of personnel administration to oversee the affairs of the council for at least eight months , expressing hope that such window will allow the heads of personnel administration to clear all the backlog of salaries owed council workers across the eight local government areas .
He also called on the council workers to support and cooperate with Dr. Ovienadu Torutein , Head of Yenagoa Local government administration to correct what he described as the diversionary strides made by the out – gone administration that crippled the local government system.
