01 July, 2025
News Desk
Staff of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Monday staged a protest in front of the FCTA headquarters in Area 11, Abuja.
The group under the Joint Union Action Committee was captured holding placards with different inscriptions, to demand for payment and notifying the federal government about what pressing issues.
Speaking to reporters, the President of the union, Mrs Rifkatu Iortyer, explained that they have taken several actions including written of letters since 2023 to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike to intervene but all efforts proved abortive
“We cannot work when overhead is not released. We held a meeting with one of them and they say is overhead not for the directors? Is that true? Is it not for working? How can somebody as high-ranking as that say that overhead is for directors, It means they don’t even know. But I want them to know that from that overhead is what we used to work. It is a recurrent for office maintenance and other things that should be used for work. But we do not have it.
The Union thereby issued a 3-day ultimatum to the FCT administration to meet their demands or they will resort to different measures to seek for their rights.
Some of their demands include the commencement of training and retraining of FCTA workers, payment of 5 months wage award, payment of FCT teachers allowances and salaries, immediate stop of national housing funds deductions, immediate commencement of staff promotion due in 2023, 2024,and 2025 among other
