Ondo Football Agency workers protest 20 months unpaid salaries

The workers of the Ondo State Football Agency (ODSFA) yesterday protested over 20 months of unpaid salaries by the agency’s management.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ODSFA is the body in charge of Sunshine Stars FC of Akure.

The peaceful protest that took place at the gate of governor’s office, Akure, saw the workers carrying placards to show displeasure with the way the agency is being run by the management, especially the civil servants seconded to the agency.

Some of the inscriptions on the placards read: “Due to unpaid salaries, workers’ marriages have broken up” and “ODSFA pay our 20 months unpaid salaries’’.

Others are “Our past leaders in ODSFA have put our lives in danger due to unpaid salaries’’, Arakunrin (governor) save our souls’’ and “Two workers have died due to 20 months unpaid salaries”.

The Commissioner for Youth Development and Sports, Saka YusufOgunleye, while addressing the protesting workers promised to relocate his office to the agency on Monday and look into the issues raised by the workers.

Yusuf-Ogunleye said most of the problems in the agency were caused the by the past managements of the agency, but noted that government was a continuum.

The commissioner said government had taken steps and moving to ensure that the monthly subvention of the agency was increased to ensure some of the problems faced were settled.