Ex-Textile Workers Appeal To Tinubu, Governors Over N35bn Unpaid Gratuities

No fewer than 9,000 former textile workers in Kaduna State have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, state governors, and other stakeholders to intervene in the payment of about N35 billion in unpaid gratuities and compensation owed to them.
The workers, under the Coalition of Closed Unpaid Textile Workers of Nigeria, Kaduna State chapter, said the debt arose from the collapse of four major textile companies—Kaduna Textiles Limited, Arewa Textiles Plc, Nortex, and Fine Tex Limited.
In a statement signed by their president/chairman, Jeibe Wordam and Samuel Ibrahim, the group said the companies shut down between 2002 and 2004 without paying workers their entitlements.
They said th...