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LMC write the Ministry of Sports Over Unpaid Salary
Staff of the League Administration Firm (LMC) have made a Save Our Soul plea to the Minister of Sports activities and Youth Improvement, Sunday Dare relating to their backlog of unpaid salaries.
In a letter dated eleventh October 2022 and addressed to the Minister, was with the title: COMPLAINT ABOUT UNPAID SALARIES, BENEFITS AND REDUNDANCY OF SOME MEMBERS OF STAFF.
In keeping with them, we write to commend the Honourable Minister of Sports activities Mr Sunday Dare on the latest optimistic growth and happenings round sports activities typically and particularly soccer administration that lately led to the composition of an interim administration committee to run the affairs of the Nigeria skilled soccer league (NPFL) which initially is called Nigeria Soccer League (NFL) buying and selling as Nigeria Premier League (NPL).
This certainly is a step in the suitable route.
Having mentioned this, nonetheless, we the undersigned authentic confirmed members of workers of The Nigeria Skilled Soccer League (NPFL) that have been rendered redundant and whose salaries and advantages have been withheld for no motive in any way, by the officers of the League Administration Firm led by Mr Shehu Dikko and Mr Salisu Abubakar have the next complaints and calls for;
To start with, we’re bonafide members of workers of the Nigerian Skilled Soccer League with an employment letter and affirmation letter.
We have been all co-opted into the LMC association verbally with none correspondence comparable to a letter of neither engagement nor an organization id card albeit we have been been paid our salaries with our job description and obligations usurped by officers of the LMC preparatory to a premeditated redundancy lacuna.
Progressively henceforth, salaries of particular person workers have been been stopped tactically for no causes in any way with none discover or explanations.
This brought about untold hardship, unmitigated well being challenges and dying for some members of the workers.
Because of this redundancy and nonpayment of salaries, we misplaced our lodging.
Our youngsters and wards have been thrown out of their colleges for lack of college charges.
Some bumped into well being challenges and even dying due to the suspension of medical health insurance protection.
Our pension contribution was suspended.
Our tax remittance was suspended, housing allowances weren’t paid and our depart allowances have been additionally not paid.
In gentle of the above, we’re interesting passionately to the Honourable Minister of Sports activities, Mr Sunday Dare as a father and chief to look into our plight with compassion and tackle this anomaly as soon as and for all within the following areas;
We now have been skilled and have labored as basis members of workers of the Nigerian Skilled Soccer League and contributed to rising the league into what it turned.
We decide to the truth that we love our career and our jobs with ardour and want to come again to our responsibility put up.
By way of the welfare and the well-being of those members of workers of the Nigerian Skilled Soccer League, we attraction to the Honorable minister to empathise with our plights in addressing the under-listed request.
Our excellent wage arrears and allowances needs to be paid to us to ameliorate our sufferings.
Restoration of our Well being Insurance coverage protection, remittance of our collected pension contribution and remittance of our withheld private revenue tax of the under-listed members of workers.
In conclusion, we wish to emphasize that these members of workers of the Nigeria Skilled League (NPFL) rendered redundant for simply no trigger by the administration of the dissolved LMC, have gone by way of a whole lot of sufferings up to now years. In gentle of the above, we’re trying ahead to the Honorable Minister of Sports activities taking swift and optimistic motion on our request.
Hooked up to the letter was the breakdown of the wage arrears of the affected members of workers.”
Efforts to succeed in Shehu Dikko to react to the allegations proved abortive, as he was but to choose up calls or reply to SMS and WhatsApp messages despatched on the time of submitting the report.
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