LASEMA ad hoc staff are reportedly experiencing
untold hardship having been owed their salaries
since November 2018. To make matters worse,
they are reportedly lacking the basics needed to
carry out their jobs effectively.
LASEMA has a consulting firm called Avantgarde
Management Services (AMS) - the same agency
that managed Vision Scape. AMS manages the
facilities and the staff who are not directly under
the payroll of Lagos State Civil Service. The staff
managed by AMS include; the ad hoc staff
employed by LASEMA and the staff directly
employed by AMS (some LASEMA drivers and call
centre agents).
These LASEMA /LRU operation staff who are on
the payroll of AMS have been owed salary for two
months, a source close to the situation told LIB.
The staff were not paid their October salary until
late December. The salaries for November and
December are still pending and staff are finding it
hard to meet their needs.
According to our source, due to the lack of
remuneration, the ad hoc staff, who make up
almost half of the entire Operation staff of
LASEMA, do not even have money for
transportation and sometimes they are loaned
money by the General Manager, LASEMA.
Our source said these staff are "undergoing untold
hardships", especially as it's a new year and the
beginning of school. So many cannot pay their
children's school fees and this is affecting their
morale. A lot of them have to borrow money to
be able to come to work and fulfil their
responsibilities. Our source added that one of
their staff became mentally ill due to the
pressure.
The source said:
Most of the Adhoc Staff have wives and
children.
Do you know one of the Adhoc Staff even
ran mad some weeks ago? But really, who
would not run mad when you can't pay your
children school fees before exams last term
and now this new term the kids are either at
home or the parent doesnt know how to pay
both last terms fee and the new term's.
Imagine going for emergency opertations
where you would stay for hours without food
in your stomach. These guys have to borrow
money from family and friends for
transportaion and feeding at work.
Asides not being paid, the staff are reportedly
lacking the basics in their bases; such as drinking
water and soaps to wash their hands in the
toilets. The meal tickets they used to receive was
also stopped last year.
While responding to the scene of an emergency,
LRU operation staff witness incidents that leave
them traumatized, yet there is no provision for
therapy or counselling for them.
To make matters worse, the General Manager has
not addressed the issue with the affected staff,
our source said.
As for the staff who are directly on the payroll of
the Lagos State Civil Service, some of them are
paid N17,000 (excluding hazards allowance) as
salary for one whole month. This is not even up
to the minimum wage.
LIB reached out to LASEMA PRO, Mr Kehinde
Adebayo, but he says he cannot comment on the
matter. He added that it is the acting GM Tiamiyu
Adeshina who comments on such issues but he is
not around at the moment.
Source:
www.lindaikejisblog.com/2019/1/lasema-
ad-hoc-staff-complain-bitterly-as-theyve-not-
been-paid-salary-since-november.html
