By Aggrieved Workers of the Monrovia City Cooperation MCC early Monday morning July 1, 2024, took the streets, setting a road on the UN Drive, as a means of demanding for seven months salary allegedly owed by the government.
According to them, the MCC Boss has threaten to downside many of them in raising calls for their salary.
Some of them who spoke to journalists from the protesters seen disclosed that the government of Liberia has not pay them since January, a situation that is inconveniencing them in many ways.
“we want our money, we are suffering, we have children that need to attend schools, and some of us need to go to hospital, we can’t be working without pay” one of the protesters expressed.
Abel J. Padmore a members of the aggrieved workers also noted that the there have been numerous of engagement to the MCC Boss John Safia has yielded no results, as they been promised for over several months without fulfillment. Abel who also claimed that the government owed him six months, furthered that their protest action will continue until they received their areas, threatening to halt obstruct other workers who may deviate from their action.
“The protest will continue for this whole July month, if it cause them to kill us for our money, we are willing” He Asserted.
Madam Elizabeth Korboi have spend seventeen years with the MCC without employment status, she expressed frustrations over the MCC’s failure to pay her for the above mentioned period.
I have served here for a very long, when there’s time for employment, the leaders will bring their own people and forget us, so for now, I’m tired. I only need my six months and leave. madm Elizabeth said.
Meanwhile, the office of the MCC Boss John Safia alluded to the entity owing it worker seven months but blamed the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning for the salary delay.
By: Alphanso G. Kalama
