The organised labour in Kogi
State has expressed dismay on the story credited to Head of Service, Mrs
Deborah Ogunmola, that she has uncovered 300 ghost workers allegedly planted by
senior civil servants in the state..
A statement by the chairman
Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Onuh Edoka and his Trade Union Congress
counterpart, TLC, Comrade Ranti Ojo, described the allegation as unfortunate
given the fact that the state government had conducted staff verification
exercise that lasted for over three years.
The statement noted that aside
the normal verification exercise that lasted three years, the government also
organised pay parade for all workers and had their biometric data captured.
The statement, therefore,
challenged the Head of Service to publish the names of the ghost workers, their
MDAs and the senior civil servants involved in the criminal activities.
The labour leaders said the
government’s statements since after the screening indicated that the payment
system has been made watertight and only the governor could order the inclusion
of any names in the payroll and wondered how senior civil servants could gain
access to the payroll again
They said, “Until the identities
of those involved are revealed, the organised labour would view the action of
the Head of Service as a deliberate attempt to rubbish what the State
government has achieved from the screening exercise and thereby throw the
entire workforce into another round of screening exercise again.”
The organised labour also accused
the Head of Service of finding avenues of perpetuating herself in office having
reached her retirement age in service since two years ago.
The statement advised the state
government not to listen to any advice that could set it against workers,
noting that the Head of Service outburst was a coup against workers aimed at
denying them their minimum wage.
It called on the state government
to hasten the implementation of the minimum wage to the workforce as being done
in other states.
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