Some ad-hoc staff of Rivers State Emergency Medical Services said they are yet to be paid salary for over a year, despite their role in helping to rescue trapped victims of last year building collapse at Woji road Port Harcourt.
Some of the ad-hoc staff who spoke to our reporters lamented the suffering they undergo due to non payment of one year salaries and also give them appointment letters.
” for over one year now, we have not been paid, and they are not saying anything. Through out last year we did not traveled because of money. And you know that nobody survive without money. Schools has resume and our children can not go back to school. Our house rent is due. We are begging the governor, the commissioners to try and do something ”
” I just paid 6 months of my house rent, and it will expire this January. I don’t know where the money will come out from. Feeding is just a struggle. My siblings keep looking up to me for financial help. I can’t perform my duty”
” they are mandating us to go to work, and we don’t even have money to pay transport. They should please pay us our salary”
An interest group also called on state government to come to the aid of the staff Knowing full well that they are working for the interest of the people which the government is protecting, risking their lives to rescue accident victims.
They pleaded with the government to pay them their salary, so that they would be able to sustain themselves and their families.
