Pay our 24 months salary – RSSDA staff appeals to Rivers State Govt.

•  Director of the agency retires.  

Staff of the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency, RSSDA are appealing to the Rivers State Government to pay their twenty four months salaries owed workers of the agency.

 

The workers made the appeal when they embarked on a peaceful protest to Government House, Monday, in Port Harcourt.

RSSDA Union Chairman, Comrade Justice Nyebuchi Eleru  who spoke on behalf of the protesters lamented they were losing colleagues due to hunger.

Comrade Eleru said they decided to embark on this protest after several letters to the government about their plight remained unattended to.

Also Chairman of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Service Employees, Comrade Ladepo Johnson, said they decide to join in the protest to show solidarity.

The workers maintained that they will persist in their request and called on well-meaning individuals to come to their aid as no government official was around to address them.

Meanwhile, the Acting Executive Director of the Rivers State Sustainable Agency, RSSDA, Mr. Larry Pepple has resigned his appointment.

Mr. Pepple in his resignation letter explained that his decision came because after two years since his appointment, he is yet to ascertain Governor Nyesom Wike’s vision for the agency which was established by former Governor Peter Odili in 2007.

Mr. Pepple in the letter alleged that he had written to Governor to streamline the operations of the agency, visit scholarship students abroad to validate their financial commitment to schools.

He also alleged that he had recommended approval for payment of staff salaries arrears and also streamlines Programmes that will fit into the core mandate of the agency.

The RSSDA director further alleged that despite approval by the Governor, these suggestions are yet to be implement.