The hardships occasioned by the nonpayment of salaries of workers in Oyo state, yesterday forced staff of the Pace-Setters Transport Services (PTS), popularly known as ‘Ajumose Shuttle’ to protest the non-payment of their two months salaries, alleging insensitivity on the part of the company’s management.
The protesters, who were mainly from the transport section of the scheme, which was inaugurated to ease the movements of civil servants and the public alike through subsidised fares, included drivers, driver-assistants and automechanics.
They lamented the poor condition of service they were operating under. Vowing not to resume for work, the angry workers gathered at the company’s main entrance, claiming that they were tired of excuses being offered by the management for the inability to pay their salaries as when due.
New Telegraph’s investigation revealed that the twomonth salaries were being owed as a result of banking processes associated with change of signatories of the management, following the recent sack of the Acting General Manager of the company and two other principal officers over alleged mismanagement of funds.
Some of the drivers- Muili Akinpelu, Alhaji Jimoh Ajagbe and Adeniyi Azeez, who spoke on their predicament said that they resolved to protest, not against their bosses or Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who they said might not have known what they were passing through in terms of poor welfare from the company’s management.
According to Akinpelu, “We are not fighting our bosses, but they are owning us two months salaries. They kept on deceiving us that they will pay us tomorrow, but when their tomorrow refused to end, we decided to make our condition known to the public today.”
