Sanwo-Olu Tasked On 3 Months LAWMA Salary Debt

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

A worker of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has blasted the Managing Director of the agency, Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, over the non-payment of three months salaries of staff.

In a now-viral video, the official, who was seen shedding tears, bemoaned over his poor state of living due to the refusal of the waste management body to pay his three months salaries.

In the emotion-laced video, the official recorded his empty kitchen, where they were no food stuffs, wondering how the agency want them to survive when their salaries are not being paid.

Speaking in Yoruba, he said,

“During the COVID-19 lockdown, we go to work, there was no lockdown for LAWMA workers. We make sure that Lagos State is l clean, we work tirelessly to ensure that the state is clean. We sweep everywhere to make it clean. What is the problem in giving us our salaries? Why is it very hard to give us our salaries?

“LAWMA Is owning us three months salaries. We are hungry, the elderly ones among us are hungry. Give us our salaries! What is the problem? Ibrahim, what is the problem? I’m calling you by your name, enough is enough.

“I am an asthmatic patient. I work as LAWMA supervisor. Look at what I use?

(He brought out inhalers) ask them in a pharmaceutical shop, how much it is worth. It is N6,500. How will I buy my drugs? When they did not pay my salary, where do you want me to get money to buy my drugs?”

The official appealed to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to come to the aid of LAWMA workers and deliver them from the hands of the LAWMA boss.

“Do not spoil the work of Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Ibrahim, I beg you, do not spoil the work of Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

(Knelt), Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, I am begging you, the good father, governor, we are suffering, LAWMA workers are hungry. There is nothing we have at the moment. We have not been given three months salaries. Deliver us!” the LAWMA official said.

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The video has sparked angry reactions on Twitter, with Many Nigerians wondering about the reasons the workers are not being paid, despite the economic status of Lagos State.

GWG gathered the following tweets:

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