The Kano State Refuse Management and Sanitation Board, REMASAB, has disowned hundreds of Protesters claiming they are Workers of the Sanitation Office and were not paid 10 Months Salaries.
Reacting to the claims of the protesting Streets cleaners, the Managing Director of the Board, Ahmadu Haruna said, “as far as we are concerned those protesting so-called unpaid Salaries Workers they are aliens to us, we don’t know them because they are not in our records”.
He said, “when we came in some almost Seven months ago, we investigated the actual numbers of Workers we have, and at the end of the verification exercise we conducted about 1082 we inherited and we paid them”.
The Managing Director also hinted that, before they conducted their verification they ensure that they used their Supervisors and Auditors who uncovered every Worker from the Streets they are working at, and after do diligence we paid them four months salaries.
He said, 90 percent of the Workers are on Casual basis adding that, “from Messenger to cleaner and up to the Streets Sweepers, we paid them June, July, August and September salaries and for we don’t have any problems with anybody.”
Haruna said, “that they are ready to pay anybody who turns in as an authentic worker of the place after verification, adding that those who are claiming that they are not paid 10 Months, ask them did the NNPP government reached those months they are asking.”
Recalled that, unpaid Streets cleaners gathered at the headquarters of REMASAB, on Tuesday where they called on the managing director of the board, Alhaji Ahmad Haruna, to pay their salaries.
The protesters also complained about how dangerous their job is, narrating how some of them have been killed in the course of duty at different locations across Kano City.
