LAKKI MARWAT: The workers of Water and Sanitation Services Company demonstrated against the non-payment of salary for three months in Bannu on Wednesday.
After passing through different bazaars, the protesting employees gathered outside the office of tehsil municipal administration, where they burnt old tyres and closed the road for vehicular traffic. They raised slogans in favour of their demands.
On the occasion, workers’ leaders Abdul Rauf, Noor Mohammad, Farmanullah and others said the company had been running without a chief executive officer for last over two years. They said employees had not been paid salary for the last three months.
They said non-payment of salary had multiplied the sufferings of poor employees, and asked the government to order an audit of the company’s accounts from 2017 to 2023.
They warned to lock the offices of the company and municipal administration if their salary was not paid immediately.
Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2023
