Imo State-Owned Radio Workers Protest Against Unpaid Salaries

SCORES of the members of staff of the Imo State-owned Imo Broadcasting
Corporation (IBC), have protested the alleged neglect by the
management of the corporation to pay their April and May salaries.

In a protest march that disrupted economic and social activities on
Tuesday, the protesters regretted that after toiling hard for the
corporation, especially risk their lives during the last polls by
standing by the governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, amid other
contestants, they were not paid during the period.

The protesting group made up of the Radio Television Theatre and Arts
Workers Union (RATTAWU), Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), and
Nigeria Union of Civil Stenographic Workers (NUCSSASW), led by Bishop
Tony Eluchia, regretted that the governor's declaration of paying the
state's civil service did not affect them, as they were yet to be
paid.

The newly appointed Secretary to the State Government, Jude Ejiogu,
who promised to send the message to Okorocha, was worried that the
protesters were unable to carry their grievances through the proper
channel before marching through the streets, adding that the
government have been paying members of staff as a matter of priority.
—GuardianNews