Ogun State workers have pleaded with Governor Dapo Abiodun to settle their salary deductions, claiming that they “are dying.”

According to the Ogun State Salary Earners’ Co-operative Thrift and Credit Union Limited, Gov. Abiodun refused to pay their 17-month-old co-operative deductions.

Workers in Ogun State Salary Earners’ Co-operative Thrift and Credit Union Limited save a percentage of their salaries with the union every month

It was learned by Daily Post that the state government was to deduct the money and pay it to the union on behalf of the workers.

The workers, however, are unable to access their voluntary savings or acquire loans since the 17 months of deductions were not repaid by the State, according to the union.

In a statement both signed by their president, Bodude Tanimola, and their general manager, Sunday Ajayi, they asked Abiodun to put an end to the unnecessary deaths resulting from refusal to release their entitlements.

Due to their inability to pay for school, many of the union’s members’ children have dropped out, the union claimed.The union also added that unremitted salary deductions amounts had totaled billions of Naira.

Many letters submitted to Gov. Abiodun, the Head of Service and others were disregarded, according to union leaders.

According to the statement, “There is the inability of our members to take care of their immediate and extended family’s welfare.

“There is also the inability to give out loans to our co-operative members.

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“We appeal to the Executive Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun to look into the 17 months Co-operative deductions outstanding owed our members, to reduce the number of deaths recorded among our members.”

According to the Daily Post, Gov. Abiodun has repeatedly promised to prioritize workers’ welfare.

The Governor pledged to settle the deductions at the 2021 Workers Day celebration help at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Kuto, Abeokuta, but the workers say nothing has been done since then.

It has been 2 years since Abiodun took office, and they claim that was no case of unremitted cooperative deductions until his election in 2019

They also accused the governor of making empty promises about the full payment of the workers.