Abia state health workers have locked the gate leading into their premises to protest the non-payment of their six months' salaries by the state government on Friday.
Speaking with newsmen in Umuahia, the Secretary Joint Action Committee of all Labour Unions, Mbanefo Ifeanyi, said that the state government was owing health workers in the state six months' salaries.
Ifeanyi said that the union had written to the state Commissioner for Health over the issue, including the inability of the government to pay the stipulated minimum wage and Consolidated Health Salary Structure [CONHESS].
He also said that the present administration has refused to look into the disparity in the salary structure.
He said, "We also want the state government to restore the night allowances which has been stopped for a long time now."
Ifeanyi said that they want the state government to also pay the arrears of their CONHESS which had been approved by the immediate past administration and "has been wasting away on the desk of the health commissioner."