Secretary
to Cross River State Government, Mrs Martina Agbor, was
yesterday held hostage by street sweepers and gardeners at the Calabar
Urban Development Authority, CUDA, when she went there to take inventory
of the Authority’s vehicles.
According
to Vanguard, Mrs Agbor who had a scheduled meeting with the Executive
Secretary, Mr. Joemary Ekeng Ita, arrived the sanitation office located on
Ibrahim Babangida Way in the state capital, to get details of the capacity
of the authority to clean up the state capital which was filled with trash.
On
seeing Mrs Agbor, about 500 workers in the agency mobilised and
waited patiently while she was shown round the premises.
After
the inspection, as she was about to leave, the angry workers who allegedly had
not been paid their N5,000 allowances for seven months, surrounded her and
demanded their unpaid allowances before she would be allowed to leave the
premises.
She
was held up in her car until a detachment of the Police came to take her out of
the premises.
Reacting
on the incident, the SSG said the government was not owing the workers, rather
it was the contractors handling the evacuation of refuse in the state capital
that owed them.
She
said:
“They
are saying that government owes them and I ask, owe you, how? Look at the
books, they have over 200 workers and yet the town is still dirty. What do we
owe them for? Who are those that have been working? That was what brought me
here,” she said.
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