THERE may be no end in sight yet over agitations for work benefits in the Lagos civil service. Of particular concern for the workers in the last three years, is the contentious issue of leave allowance that was allegedly scrapped with the introduction of Consolidated Salary Scale in 2011.
The workers' years of grumbling was loudest last week at a town hall meeting with governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN). One of them, Jokogboola, held the microphone to reopen the leave allowance issue. According to Jokogboola, "I want to talk about our leave bonus sir." The attendant cheer from her colleagues reverberated across the whole of Alausa on the afternoon.
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