Workers of the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission on Monday besieged the Government House in Owerri, to protest three months unpaid salaries by the Governor Hope Uzodinma-led administration.
The workers, who wore black attires, displayed placards with various inscriptions depicting their anger. They grounded movements in and out of the state government house for hours.
All vehicles going in and out of the government house were turned back by the enraged workers.
The Chief of Staff to the governor, Nnamdi Anyaehie, failed to persuade the protesting workers to go back to their offices.
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The union chairman, Chinedu Awuzie, told journalists that the state government was being wicked, adding that despite ISOPADEC having only 320 workers as against the thousands of workers its sister commissions had in other states, the government had continued to short-changed them.
He said the leadership of the commission had on several occasions met with the governor without any result as regards the payment of their salaries.
Awuzie, accused the government of marginalising the state oil workers by allegedly encroaching into its treasury.
The Chief of Staff to the governor asked the protesters to go back to their offices, assuring them that their salary arrears would be cleared, but the protesters disagreed with him.
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