Imo Broadcasting Workers Shut Station Over Five Months Unpaid Salaries

Staff of Imo Broadcasting Corporation, IBC, the mouth piece of the state government, have commenced a three-day warning strike to press home their demands for payment of their five months

arrears of salaries. The workers, who were operating under the canopy of Joint Action Committee, JAC, effectively sealed the Corporation’s premises, as well as hung placards that aptly depicted their grievances at the gate. Some of the placards read: “Okorocha, pay us our five months salary”,
“Okorocha, We are tired of dishing out lies via IBC channels”, “We want our salary 100%”, “We mourn our DG who died of non-payment of 5-month salary” and “Okorocha, We have reached our elastic limit”. One of the workers, who was clutching a copy of yesterday’s Vanguard with the page containing Yinka Odumakin’s column fumed that the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, CPS, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, had the guts to claim that all civil servants had been paid up to April. The CPS, who was replying to an earlier piece written by Odumakin stated: “As I write, the payment of April salary has begun. In other words, the civil servants, teachers, local government workers and so on, have been paid up to the month of April. Which means, only the month of May is outstanding, since June has not ended. We stand to be contradicted on these counter-claims.”