Scores of highway sweepers under the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) on Monday stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly protesting non-payment of their salary arrears by the state government.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the sweepers are being owed five months salaries by the state government.
The placard carrying sweepers urged the state lawmakers to intervene in order to alleviate the economic hardship they were being made to pass through.
Yemisi Oresanwo, one of the sweepers, said things changed for the worse when they were moved from the Ministry of Environment, MOE, to Lagos State Waste Management Agency, LAWMA.
According to her, sweepers earn N12,000 while supervisors earn N20,000. This, she said, had made life difficult for them.
Efforts to get official comments from the LAWMA proved abortive as telephone calls to its Managing Director, Abdulwahab Ogunbiyi were not answered.
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