Nigerian Labour Congress President Ayuba Wabba.
The families of more than 2,000 workers lost to the insurgency in the North East were yet to get their benefits from their respective state governors, the Nigeria Labour Congress has said.
The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, said this while speaking at a meeting organized by the American Centre for International Labour Solidarity in collaboration with the NLC on Tuesday in Abuja.
Wabba said the Congress would write the affected state governors in the region to demand that workers who were killed in the region as a result of insurgency got their benefits.
“We will write a formal demand to those governors to say that those workers that have died in active service should be paid their benefit,” the NLC president said.
He stated that the number of workers who lost their lives to insurgency in the region was over 2,000 put together.
He said teachers, local government and health workers were the most affected, stressing that orphans and widows who are victims of the insurgency are merely surviving on contributions from unions.
As stated by him, 546 teachers, 101 health workers, and six nurses have lost their lives in Borno alone since the commencement of the insurgency as at January 2016.
The labor leader said this figure was obtained from the American Solidarity Centre.
He, however, called on all the states that were affected to give priority to the benefit of those heroes that have died in active service.