Sanitation workers of the Ondo State Waste Management Agency are lamenting the delay in the payment of their monthly stipend after they have been working daily to keep the metropolis clean.
The workers are responsible for sweeping the streets, adjoining roads and highways in Akure, the state capital.
One of the sweepers made the disclosure on Crest FM’s phone-in programme Kemisola Half Hour, on Tuesday.
She said the sweepers have not been paid their monthly N35,000 stipend by the waste management company since July, 2025.
She expressed displeasure at the failure to pay their salaries in the face of the economic hardship in the country.
“I now trek daily from my house to where I’m stationed to sweep, and trek back since they failed to pay the N35,000 stipend in the last four months.
“Although, we’re expected to be paid N70,000 monthly but they’re paying us(sweepers) N35,000, yet they are owing us four months,” she disclosed.
She appealed to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to come to their rescue by ensuring prompt payment of the four months stipend owed them.
Thefrontrank reports that most of the sweepers are widows and the aged.
Some of the sweepers who spoke to Thefrontrank stated that they have become frustrated by the non-payment of their salary.
“As a sweeper, I close as late as 5pm. I use N2,000 for transport daily to and from work, and I am a widow. We always complain, but they won’t answer us,” one them said.
They lamented the danger associated with the sweeping job, especially sweeping the highways where many transporters drive carelessly.
The sweepers also complained of poor conditions of service.
Efforts by Thefrontrank to get the reaction of the waste management company were unsuccessful.
