Cross River sacked LG workers reject reinstatement claim, protest

By Ike Uchechukwu CALABAR
Thousands of aggrieved local government workers in Cross River State on Tuesday protested at the Federal Secretariat in Calabar, rejecting the state government’s claim that 3,000 of them had been reinstated and describing the announcement as a “huge hoax”.

The protesters, who also visited the Local Government Service Commission, said they had remained without salaries for months despite working in various local government departments, health centres and revenue units across the state.

They lamented that prolonged non-payment of salaries had left many of them sick and struggling to meet their basic needs.
The protest followed a recent statement by Gove...