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Last Updated: Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page Police Affairs workers detain director over unpaid salaries, entitlements   By Bassey Udo,  Snr Correspondent, Abuja   The Director of Finance and Accounts at the Ministry of Police Affairs, Mrs. A. O. Pitan, was on Monday detained in her office in Abuja for several hours by workers over alleged unpaid salaries and other official entitlements. Reports had it that the workers� action was as a result of the non-payment of outstanding salaries due to them since last July. A spokesman of the demonstrating workers who pleaded anonymity told Daily Independent that since July the workers have always been paid half salaries, while the Ministry has refused to settle the leave grant and other claims due to them for the year. Though he said the workers have made several representations to the appropriate authorities, the inability to resolve it has always been blamed on the shortfall in the ministry�s monthly financial allocation from the Finance Ministry. But, dissatisfied and fed up with the explanation, the workers were said to have decided to vent their spleen on the hapless of Director, who they accused of not doing enough to find solutions to their problem. At about 2.30 p.m., the director, who was said to have been out of the office at the Federal secretariat returned only to be locked in by angry workers who blocked the entrance of her office chanting songs like �we no go gree-O, we no go gree, half half salary, we no go gree�, �all we are saying, give us our pay�. A short message pasted somewhere close to the Director�s office also read: �Give us our right by paying the outstanding balance of our salaries from July to December 2004. The workers who refused to be persuaded by any official were only appeased to vacate the director�s office when words came that the Minister of Police Affairs, Broderick Bozimo wanted to dialogue with them on the issue. When Daily Independent went to her office for her reaction on the incident, the embattled director, who was still panting and trying to catch her breathe was hardly in the mode for any comments. �Get out of my office. I have nothing to tell you about what happened�, she said       Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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