AIT and RayPower Workers Shut Down Office Over Unpaid Salaries
Workers of Daar Communications Plc, operators of African
Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower FM Radio, yesterday shut down all
broadcasting activities at the Benin studio in protest over unpaid 17 months
salaries.
The scores of protesting workers were said to have blocked
the main entrance to the station located along the Benin/Lagos bypass.
It was gathered that the protesting workers put at about
fifty workers, were owed salaries spanning between 12 and 17 months.
According to Pm News, one of
workers who claimed anonymity said that newly employed staff of AIT were being
owed 12 months while old staff were yet to be paid salaries between 13 months
and staff of the Raypower FM, the Radio arm of the broadcast outfit were owed
17 months.
“The stations generate millions
of naira on a daily basis, so there is no reason why we should not be paid our
salaries. They have no excuse not to pay us our money. It is share wickedness
and man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. We have families to care for and
children to pay their school fees. Many of our children have stopped going to
school. But their own attend schools abroad.
Look at where our station is located, in another village so
far away from Benin City. You have to chatter a taxi cab for not less than
N500.00 to get there if you miss the staff bus. And not even every cab driver
will agree to go there because of the wrong location of the station, yet, they
expect us to be there every day, whether you have anything to do or not,” he
said.
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