The Labour leader made his position known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday.
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The threat came barely 24 hours after the approval of the proposed amendments to the 1999 Constitution to grant financial autonomy to state legislatures, judiciary and the 774 local government areas in the country by the National Assembly.
Local Government Councils in the South East are yet to enjoy financial autonomy in spite of the directive by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, a survey by News Agency of Nigeria has revealed.
The unions are the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees and the Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies
Alhaji Nuhu Dauda, the Chairman, Interim Management Committee of the council, told newsmen in Lafia that the refund would be made to the affected workers in the interest of peace and development.
Members of the NULGE, who staged a street rally on Wednesday in Enugu that terminated at the State House of Assembly, vowed to resist impediments to the actualisation of the goal.
The government, however, appealed to the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees to suspend the ongoing strike by its members.
The resolution was contained in a six-point communiqué issued at the end of the State Executive Council meeting of the two unions held on Thursday in Yenagoa.
NULGE had in a statement issued on Monday listed Bayelsa and Kogi as states with the highest level of indebtedness to council workers
The National President of the union, Ibrahim Khaleel, stated this in a statement
Governor Lalong made the allegation on Thursday in Jos when the leadership of the Nigeria Union of local government Employees visited him
Ibrahim Khaleel, the NULGE President, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja
The workers issued the threat at a joint press conference organised by the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees and Nigeria Union of Pensioners
Fayose also called for the democratisation of the local government administration in the country, adding that the persistent use of caretaker committee to run the affairs of local councils in the country was against the words and letters of Section 7 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended)
The Ministry of Local Government in the state had embarked on the screening of personnel to identify the genuine workers and make out the ghost workers
The bill, sponsored by Nkeiruka Onyejeocha of Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency, Abia State, seeks to abolish the State and Local Government Joint Account by altering Section 162 of the 1999 Constitution
Khaleel said the Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government at the National Conference had recommended that the 774 local governments should be removed and transferred to the states