Liberia: Correction Officers Strike for Salary

26 December 2013

Several Correction Officers assigned in Gbarnga, Bong County at the Central Prison have embarked on an indefinite strike action demanding government's failure to pay them for six months. The Superintendent of the Gbarnga Central Prison, Feshell Dean, in a radio interview (Truth FM 96.1) on Monday, December 23, 2013, confirmed the workers' action but said efforts were underway to pay the aggrieved workers.

"Yes, prison officers at the Gbarnga Central Prison Center are on strike," he confirmed.

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