BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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BOBBOI Bala Kaigama, president, Trade Union Congress, TUC, has described some governors who owe workers’ salaries running to eight months as wicked. He also accused some of the governors who were in this category of being guilty of looting their states’ treasury.
He said many governors’ owed workers’ salaries and yet they were moving freely as if nothing was happening. “Many of our governors are guilty of massive looting of the treasury, thereby causing miseries in the process. There is no excuse that can be given to justify owing workers’ salaries for eight or nine months. This is nothing but sheer wickedness; to pillage the treasury and leave workers to go home for months without salaries.”
Kaigama noted that the welfare of workers should be paramount to both the states and federal governments for the nation to achieve meaningful development. “We in the association believe very strongly that time has come for our dear country to develop a new economic model that will take into consideration the variables that are relevant and consistent to the Nigerian situation.”
He demanded that the federal government should start the process of paying workers at the federal level all their entitlements. Kaigama, who is also the president of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, also urged the federal government to discontinue the practice of appointing permanent secretaries into ministries or parastatals from outside the civil service, especially those who were more than 60 years of age.
— Jul 28, 2016 @ 18:55 GMT
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