Forty-five drivers in the employ of the Federal Capital Territory Administration have threatened to embark on strike over alleged misappropriation of their salaries and allowances by the management of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council.

The drivers, who were being owed four months salaries and travel allowances, accused the AMMC Coordinator, Hajia Sefinatu Tania, of being indifferent to their plight despite repeated appeals to her to pay their entitlement.

The employees, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Saturday PUNCH that they were engaged as casual workers, adding that they had been working with the AMMC for about four years on a monthly salary of N15, 000.00.

They complained that they were forced to carry out domestic chores for their departmental heads at weekends, a responsibility that is outside the scope of their official duties.

One of them said, “For the past four years, we have been working on a slave wage of N15,000.00; some of us are university graduates, but the FCT Administration and the AMMC have refused to regularise our appointment. Even though we are essential to AMMC operations as drivers, they do not pay us regularly whereas, other workers are paid their full salaries and allowances every month.”

Another driver explained that the AMMC did not pay them travel allowances, noting that each time they travelled out of Abuja on official assignment, the drivers were forced to sleep inside their vehicles while other workers were lodged in hotels and paid N10,000 travel allowance per night.

 

Source: Punchng.com

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