Kebbi NLC Alleges Illegal Deduction Of N14m From Workers’ Salaries

By Ayodele Oni

The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Kebbi State Council, has set up a Committee to investigate an alleged illegal deductions from state workers’ salaries in September.

The Union stated that the committee will spring into action to investigate how the unsympathetic action came about, with a view to identify those behind it.

NLC vowed to retrieve the Illegal deductions made in the September salaries of the state’s civil servants, by some unpatriotic officials.

The State’s NLC chairman, Murtala Usman made the vow while addressing journalists in his office in Birnin Kebbi.

He pointed out that government was bitterly unhappy with the action and the state governor has directed the Union to, with immediate effect, retrieve all the amount deducted from the workers in their September salaries.

“A committee has been constituted by our union in order to spring into action to investigate how the unsympathetic action came about, with a view to retrieving the deductions made.

“We are expected to retrieve about N14 million deducted Illegally from workers salaries,” he said.

The chairman, however urged the affected civil servants to exercise patience as the leadership of the union has pledged to retrieve all the illegal deductions.