The Kano State Refuse Management and Sanitation Board, REMASAB, has said that hundreds of protesters who took to the streets seeking payment of a 10-month salary arrears, do not work for the organisation.
Speaking in response to protests by Streets Sweepers, the Managing Director of the Board, Amadu Haruna Zago, said those protesting unpaid salaries were not in the board’s official records.
“As far as we are concerned, those protesting so-called unpaid salaries are aliens to us, because we don’t know them and they are not in our records”.
“When we came in almost seven months ago, we investigated the actual numbers of workers we have, and at the end of the verification exercise we conducted, about 1,082 turned out to be the actual workers we have”.
The Managing Director, hinted that before the verification was conducted the board ensured that Supervisors and Auditors identified every worker from the streets where they were assigned and were paid their four months arrears after the verification exercise.
He noted that 90 percent of the workers are on the payroll, on a casual basis and have been paid June, July, August and September salaries, maintaining that the board has no problems with anyone for now.
However, Danzago said the Board was ready to pay anybody who turned in as an authentic worker of the place after verification.
The Streets Sweepers had gathered at the headquarters of REMASAB, on Tuesday, where they called on the managing director of the board, Ahmad Danzago, to pay their salaries.
