The protesting health workers, including investigators and sample collectors, marched from Wuse Zone 3 through the Central Business District to the Federal Capital Territory Administration to ventilate their grievances at the Ministry of the FCT.
“They paid us in March, but they didn’t pay us April and May allowances. We were ejected from our hotels and some of us started borrowing money from friends and colleagues to come to work. The aggrieved workers demanded the full payment of the ‘50 per cent COVID-19 hazard allowance’ to workers across the board in the hospital.