LAWMA Worker Accuses Bosses of Underpayment, Claims N30k Salary Instead of Promised N85k

A street sweeper employed by the Lagos State Waste Management Agency (LAWMA) has called out the agency’s management over allegations of exploitation.

In a viral video circulating on social media, the sweeper, who chose to remain anonymous, accused her supervisors of underpaying workers and failing to implement the approved salary structure.

The aggrieved sweeper claimed that despite reports of a salary increase to N85,000 since August 2024, sweepers have continued to receive only N30,000 for months.

She also revealed that workers are forced to bear the cost of purchasing the brooms they use for sweeping.

“People should please help us and ask these people, I am not very sure that it is blood that is running in your veins because we don’t understand why you are cheating us. We know that you are our bosses. You sat in your office and did not pity those of us working on the road. We buy our brooms without any allowance. We learnt that the salary became N85,000 in August but our supervisors kept promising to pay the amount despite the high cost of living.

We buy up to three brooms at N1000 each in a month but you have been paying us 30,000 for almost six months. We thought it would change last January but it didn’t. Even the N30,000 is not being paid on time until the 13 or 15th of the following month.

Even the N20,000 award wages that the President asked you to pay, we are only paid N10,000. Sometimes, only 10 people or four people will receive along each route.”

The management has yet to respond to these allegations.