REMASAB Disclaims Protesting Street Sweepers

By Abdullahi Yusuf

The Kano State Refuse Management and Sanitation Board(REMASAB) has disclaimed some hundreds of Street Sweepers who protested the non-payment of their salaries for several months.

The Sweepers took to the streets of the state capital on Tuesday protesting that the Board had refused to pay their salaries for ten months.

They stormed the headquarters of the Board located on Club Road,Kano, where they called on the managing director to settle their monthly salaries.

The Managing Director of the Board, Ahmadu Haruna Zago, said, “as far as we are concerned those protesting the so-called unpaid salaries are not our workers because we don’t have them in our records.”

“When we came in almost seven months ago, we verified the actual number of workers we have, and at the end of the verification exercise we found that we inherited 1082 staff and we have paid all of them,” Zago told newsmen on Thursday

He said the Board used Supervisors and Auditors in conducting the verification exercise which determined the actual number of the street Sweepers working with the board “and after due diligence, we paid them their four months outstanding salaries.”

“About 90 percent of the board’s staff are casual workers and we have paid all of them their June, July, August and September salaries;so we don’t have any problems with any of them,” Zago said.

He, however, said that the Board would be ready to pay any other persons who could prove that they are authentic workers of the organization.