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Again, El-Rufai sacks over 4,000 LG workers - Edoman - 11-30-2017 ![]() KADUNA State government has terminated the appointment of over 4,000 local government workers in 23 LGs of the state. The Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Jaafaru Ibrahim Sani confirmed the sacking of the 4,042 workers during a briefing in government house yesterday. He said the state government’s decision to downsize the workers was in effort to reduce the over bloated payroll on the local governments administration while ensuring that its capacity to effectively deliver meaningful project becomes realistic. While stressing that the state government maintained 6,732 local government workers, Sani said 3,195 of the retrenched workers were already retired while only 838 were affected by the policy, adding that arrangement had been made to compensate the affected staff for one to three months payments. He noted that the El-rufai-led government was only trying to correct the mistakes made by the previous administrations by unnecessarily recruiting workers on friendship or political grounds which, according to him, has prevented the local governments from executing tangible projects since money allocated to them was spent on settling workers’ salaries. He said: “Capacity of local government to render effective service to the community was hampered as most local governments, after receiving allocation to pay their staff, states government still have to augment the shortfall they normally experience.” Sani, however, revealed that “six local governments are existing on life support, as they find it difficult and impossible to pay their worker’s salary. “Whereas even the others that seem not on much critical condition, their capacity to execute meaningful development project has been hampered “In Kaduna, only Birnin Gwari Local Government is healthy; the remaining are facing series of challenges. This is a situation where government at grassroots level finds it difficult to render services to it individuals. But with this policy, we are expecting that by December, local governments will start doing meaningful projects. “If we want to develop and make life meaningful, we must do what is right. At this circumstance, we felt that this government’s decision to downsize the local government staff will help in improving the welfare of the people at the grassroots level,” he said. Meanwhile, spokesperson to the governor on media, Samuel Aruwan refuted the allegations that the sacking spree embarked upon by the elrufai government was to witchhunt antagonists to the government. He said the government was only sanitising the local government and ensuring that redundant individuals in the system were eased out, in order to enable the local government to prudently manage resources allocated to it. According to him, “We just have people who are just coming to collect salary without contributing anything. This exercise has nothing to do with politics or witch hunting, it was part of the promises made by this administration to restructure workforce. “We are trying to run local in line with today’s reality. With this current policy, we will ensure that every local government judiciously make use of their allocation,” he concluded. It would be recall that 22,000 teachers were disengaged recently from service for failure to pass Primary 4 competency test http://nigerianpilot.com/again-el-rufai-sacks-over-4000-lg-workers/ |