Tension As Disengaged Adamawa Workers Insist On Protest, Today

There is tension in the Adamawa State capital, Yola, as workers in the state, who are currently asking for unpaid salaries even after the state government announced that they were not recognised, have perfected a plan for a street protest today.
The intending protesters are warming up for the protest in spite of moves by both the police and the Department of State Service (DSS) to stop them.
The government had said a little over a week ago that the workers in question did not exist because they were not properly employed by the previous government who engaged them towards the end of its term.
The previous government, with Sen Jibrilla Bindow as the governor, had left office few months after advancing monthly salaries to the workers, but when the present government was inaugurated in May last year, it set up a committee that issued a White Paper, on which strength the state government announced after its SEC meeting on January 29, that it did not recognise the said workers because they did not function as duly employed workers.
The said workers who have taken exception to that position have insisted that they will hit the streets in the state capital, Yola, today, to demonstrate their grievances.
The Chairman of the ‘Unpaid Civil Servants of Adamawa State’, Faisal Baba, told newsmen yesterday afternoon that the street protest would go ahead today, February 10.
“We will do the protest, beginning at 9 am at the Police Roundabout. We will match to the state House of Assembly and from there to Government House,” Faisal asserted.