Legislative aides protest at National Assembly over non-payment of salaries 



Legislative aides to both senators and House of Reps members staged a protest over non-payment of salaries - Lawson Oviasoje, one of the protesters, said the National Assembly management has not paid them for six months - Oviasoje added a few of his colleagues who have been paid were not given the appropriate amount due to them As workers across the country press for payment of the new minimum wage, some legislative aides to federal lawmakers have staged a peaceful protest to demand payment of backlog of salaries they are being owed. Premium Times reports that the aides on Thursday, December 19, protested around the National Assembly, displaying placards with various inscriptions such as, “we are aides, not slaves”, “it is a grievous sin to deny workers of their wages.”

One of the protesters who is an aide to a Bayelsa lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Lawson Oviasoje, said the National Assembly management has not paid them for six months.