Environmental Workers Threaten To Shut Down Abuja Cemeteries Over Salaries

On Thursday, environmental workers in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, threatened to close all public cemeteries in Abuja.

The Gudu cemetery was closed on Wednesday, but workers reopened it after pressure from the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, and the president.

The striking workers demonstrated two days ago and went on indefinite strike after the FCT Administration failed to implement a new salary structure for them.

Muktar Bala, Chairman of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE in AEPB, stated that the unions agreed to reopen the cemeteries but will shut them down again, along with the board’s other operational systems.

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Bala said:

“As the chairman of one of the unions in AEPB, I can assure you that it is a collective decision by the whole Union, with backings from the National Union. People think it is only waste management that we do. They don’t know that even unclaimed corpses in hospitals are taken care of by us.

These dead bodies that have overstayed in the hospital for three to four years, we take care of them, without knowing what killed them.”