Workers of Daar Communications
Plc, operators of African Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower FM Radio,
yesterday shut down all broadcasting activities at the Benin studio in protest
over unpaid 17 months salaries.
The scores of protesting
workers were said to have blocked the main entrance to the station located
along the Benin/Lagos bypass.
It was gathered that the
protesting workers put at about fifty workers, were owed salaries spanning
between 12 and 17 months.
According to Pm News, one of
workers who claimed anonymity said that newly employed staffs of AIT were being
owed 12 months while old staffs were yet to be paid salaries between 13 months
and staff of the Raypower FM, the Radio arm of the broadcast outfit were owed
17 months.
“The stations generate millions
of naira on a daily basis, so there is no reason why we should not be paid our
salaries. They have no excuse not to pay us our money. It is share wickedness
and man’s inhumanity to his fellow man. We have families to care for and
children to pay their school fees. Many of our children have stopped going to
school. But their own attend schools abroad.
Look at where our station is
located, in another village so far away from Benin City. You have to chatter a
taxi cab for not less than N500.00 to get there if you miss the staff bus. And
not even every cab driver will agree to go there because of the wrong location
of the station, yet, they expect us to be there everyday, whether you have
anything to do or not,” he said
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