A consolidate group of militants known as the Joint Revolutionary
Council (JRC), have threatened to attack the Bayelsa State Government
House if the state governor, Seriake Dickson, continued to owe members
of the state civil service their salaries.
The group in a statement released yesterday July 6th, said it was
unacceptable for governor Dickson to be owing civil servants about seven
months, local government workers for over 13 months, pensioners for
about nine months and workers in the only state university, Niger Delta
University (NDU) for about seven months.
In the statement signed by some of their leaders namely
“We
are warning Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state, without
further delay commence the final payment of all workers including the
old pensioners been owed their several months of salary. Dickson is to
pay these workers/pensioners in full and not 50% or half of half of
their legitimate salaries.
The
group listed some of the oil installations it may soon attack as oil
and gas pipelines running from Ogboinbiri in Southern Ijaw LGA of
Bayelsa state to Obrinkon in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers state,
The
group in th statement commended Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, for intervening in the issues of the region
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