UMUAHIA—ABIA State Chapter of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, has called on Governor Theodore Orji, to intervene and resolve all outstanding issues between the government and the union “to avert unnecessary looming crisis in the local government system of Abia State.”
State President of the union, Ijoma Onyenaucheya, who decried what he called alleged growing insensitivity of the state government to the plight of local government worker, called on the governor to save the council workers from hardship.
He warned the government not “to take for granted the patience and endurance of the union leaders and council workers to inflict more pains and agony on them.”
The outstanding issues, according to the union, included lifting the implementation of the suspended 2012, 2013 and 2014 promotion exercises; payment of outstanding October salary to all council