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Non-Indigenous Staff Sue Taraba Govt Over 77 Months Salary Arrears



The non-indigenous staff of the Taraba Publishing Company Limited, Sun Rise, has dragged the Taraba State Government to the National Industrial Court, Jos Division over its failure to pay 77 months’ salary arrears of 18 staff, amounting to N73, 257, 715,40.

In their statement of claim, the workers alleged that 18 of them who are not from Taraba were denied salaries since the company stopped operation in 2014. According to them, they were also discriminated against on the basis of their states of origin.


The suit is between the 18 staff who serve as claimants and the executive governor of Taraba State (1st defendant), Taraba State Government (2nd defendant), The Attorney- General of Taraba State (3rd defendant), the Taraba State Commissioner of Information (4th defendant) and the Taraba Publishing Company Limited (5th defendant).


In a witness statement of the first claimant, Hosea O. Yunana: “That I am an employee of Taraba Publishing Company Limited, the 5th defendant employed via a letter dated 13/3/2012 as…confirmed on the 31/1/2014.

“That in the above letter, the managing consultant/CEO has confirmed that he has intimated the 1st defendant, the executive governor of Taraba State, on our issues and complaint and that the governor initiated some steps to address them but it ends there.

“That, through our solicitor, M.Y. Saleh, SAN, we wrote various letters of demand dated 26 January, 2021 and addressed accordingly to the executive governor of Taraba State, the Secretary to the Taraba State Government, the attorney-general and honourable commissioner of justice of Taraba State and the honourable commissioner of information and reorientation of Taraba State, and the managing consultant and chief executive officer of Taraba Publishing Company Limited respectively”.

Meanwhile, M.Y. Saleh (SAN), representing  the aggrieved staff, put forward the following claims as, “That the refusal of the defendants to pay the salaries and entitlements of the claimants is unlawful.

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