Workers of the New Nigerian newspapers have appealed to the Chairman Northern Governors Forum, Simon Lalong, to pay staff of the company their accumulated salaries and other benefits.

In a press statement jointly signed by Comrades Friday Idoko, Funmi Aderinto, Usman Nasidi and Emmanuel Bello as Chairmen and Secretaries of the in-house unions on behalf of hundreds of workers, they decried the slow pace of a process they noted was initiated in 2017 to sell assets of the company to pay off salary arrears of staff and other benefits, many of whom had died awaiting their unpaid wages of over 100 months owed by Northern State Governors.

The statement revealed that some huge amount of money had been realised from the sales of the company’s property, urging the Plateau State governor to promptly order disbursement of the fund to workers of the company to alleviate their hardships.

The statement, however, commended efforts of the Northern governors for ensuring the payment of the company’s pensioners who had worked under the federal government. (Nigerian Tribune)