Ogun State workers under the umbrella bodies of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Sunday, called on, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, the state governor, not to toy with their welfare.

Equally, the workers called on the Federal Government to fix the economy, bad roads and epileptic power supply, and pledged to be more dedicated to work in the state.

The leadership of the workers in the state made the call at the 2016 May Day celebrations, held at the M.K.O Abiola International Stadium, Kuto, Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

Comrade Olubunmi Fajobi,  Trade Union Congress chairman in Ogun State, while addressing the workers, noted that there should be commensurate attention given to the welfare of the workforce, because, “a hungry man is an angry man.”

He commended the governor for the huge success in the infrastructural development in the state bemoaning the current situation in the state where a considerable number of the workforce receive less than half of their salary monthly, while the rest hangs with the government due to un-remitted deductions to cooperative societies and other creditors.

The TUC chairman also condemned what he termed as the introduction of levies and extortion of civil servants by the government, urging the governor to ensure the officials put a stop to the act.

Also speaking, Comrade Akeem Ambali, the NLC state chairman, declared “the crippling economic situation currently affecting the masses and the working class had eroded the robust purchasing power of the people and pauperising already impoverished Nigerians”.

Ambali, who decried the current policy of government of blocking exit of workers who did not owe any cooperative society, argued that such practice was not only strange but also against labour laws.

While he commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft’s war, he posited that the government should go a step further by publishing the amount of looted money recovered so far, and where they were domiciled.