D man really needs his head examined

starting from sanusi!

BITTER TRUTH

He may have his opinions but on the issue of sacking 50% of civil service as cost saving is a diabolical fallacy. For a man who drives around with 5cars at government expense, for guy who created new positions in the CBN, for a guy with a robust number of aides, for a country without any welfare system, for country without a functional pension scheme, for a country without basic amenities? What percentage of the population are civil servants? What percentage of the population are dependants? So many questions. The main problem is at the top, of which Sanusi is a 'top-active' member and religiously contributing to the wastages. I stand to be corrected but, the cost of maintaining levels 1 to 15 is significantly less than what it takes to maintain 16 and above including permanent secs and commissioners/ministers. The perks at the higher levels are only limited by the avarice of the holder of that position. Ask Sanusi one on one and he will confirm it

Something they should have done a long time ago..... common every body knows that the civil service has a lot of inefficiencies, and those clamouring that there will be high unemployment again, RUbbish. When you spend money on capital project, a bulk of it goes down to the private sector who in turn employ people. Common 70% of the yearly budget on expenditure for wages, which sane government does that . Look around the world most governments are even reducing public servants and cutting their budgets, whilst spending on capital projects that will provide jobs.

But then again this is Nigeria!!!!! (Principles of Economics Dont always work)

Sanusi is very right! Nigerians really need to understand issues. The civil service in Nigeria today is a joke: it's an avenue used by politicians to help their families and cronies with job. How many of you can tell me employment into the Civil Service follows merit? Abegi!

Looking closely into Sanusi's suggestions, I'd advise rather sternly that civil servants should not be sacked, but retirement years should be reduced. Once you spend 20 years in the service, be retired. Funny or mean? No! By this approach, a number of unemployed youths would be in place to replace the old, less effective workers. This would lead to palpable reduction in the unemployment situation in the country.

Another aspect of this approach is that those who are retired, having been paid their gratuity, would be able to use such to invest in the economy through various small and medium-scale businesses. In general, every Nigerian, including civil servants, would be able to learn the culture of savings just like the Asians who have evolved into great level of economic reckoning of late.

FG should think of ways of creating employment than job losses,The Central bank is over staffed and mallam Sanusi have over stayed his usefulness, all his polices are counter productive

The Federal Government should concentrate on job creation and not job loss. In a country where 70 percent of its population are unemployed crime rate is usually high this is true of Nigeria

Where do you start engaging people that think Sanusi is a civil servant?

okosodo: Now, i have now known that sanusi is boko haram

please help me tell GEJ that sanusi don d mad o,why is he always thinking negatively,B4 na 5000 note na he is talking abt 50pc sack, pls Sanusi shd first be sac. Him na Malam

eldoradoxx: You are point brother!!! I don't understand the kind of stu*ipid analysis of Sanusi. He has failed to mention that the huge cost that is used to maintain the said civil servants is not what is earned by the 18000 naira minimum wage earners(the civil servant proper) but what is used to maintain the executive civil servants(if I may borrow this) who reside in Aso rock and National assembly, who have Senior special advisers, special advisers and advisers, who drive upto 30 cars as escort, who fly first class or chartered plane, who stay at presidential suites in the best hotels everywhere they re all at fed govt ezpenses. Civil servants. I know of a civil servant in NNpc who because he was promoted to directorate level, had a call allowance of over one million per month with his wife, they too are civil servants. So its not poor 18k minimum wage earners whose total salary and allowances in a year at fed level is less than 60 billion . He shud talk about he real drain pipe in govt, the ministers and their aids, the senators and aids, wasn't it permanent second in Aso rock that said that about 1.3 billion naira wouldn't be enough for feeding in one year?

Very simple but true picture.

Jarus: Where do you start engaging people that think Sanusi is a civil servant?

OK,he is a political appointee.Have been expecting you to come defend your mentor.

Why not? Workers that come to work by 12 pm and leave for home by 3pm, what assets do they manage? Some of them don't do anything in those offices, they only wait for contracts to be awarded and then go after the contractor for their share. We spend 70% of our budgets on them and they end up stealing the remaining 30% which should go to the entire population.

A government has a budget deficit, bulk of which is made up of consumption and you think the government should not implement cost cutting measures? It continues to issue debts to finance this budget of consumption whilst leaving out areas of high priority. Who is going to repay this debt? Generations unborn that have not been left with anything on ground? So they face a double task of repaying debts incurred by a greedy future generation whilst struggling to provide social services which the future barely laid down for them. How selfish!

I hear people talk trash of high interest rates and inflation here everyday. How do you drop interest rates when government borrowing is on the increase? So it means with the budget of consumption, government has succeeded in crowding-out the productive sectors of the economy whilst not also providing needed social amenities.

Fact is to implement change, there are hard decisions that need to be made. Some of the processes that these civil servants implement are of low complexities but of high value to development. For such a process, you automate it, implement information management systems to take over these tasks thus freeing up finance for development.

Now go to an office in the ministry and see people running around with paper files. Why do you need such waste? Automate the process, free up initial finance for development and as we grow as a people the macro-environment becomes more complex again and there will be a need to get more people to work in the civil service.

The present state of the civil service is a drain on the economy. Does Ebele have the political will to implement a change programme? That is the big issue!

bigx: Painful to say, but simple and true, the civil service is overbloated and not efficient in anyway.

Also 75% of political appointees should be removed.

Thank you bigx.;

Civil servants strength can be cut down at the level 12 and above by 50%.
Below level 12 can be cut by 25%.

But the political appointee are the offices that suck this nation dry. SORRY TO SAY THAT THEY ARE MANY-THEY ARE LIKE LEGIONS.
However, Sanusi belongs to this group.
They eat free, ride free cars,make free call, live in free house, use free fuel.
They live 100% on Nigerian populace.
We don't need majority of them.

No. 2 is our overbloated National assembly under David Mark.
They should be earning one-tenth of what they are earning at present.
They are complete rogues. This status of not really representing Nigerians is the main reason the executive has accorded them little or no respect.
They are taking over 25% of the 70% overhead.
Nigerians needs to revolt against them, however we need a presidency that will show some level of prudence so that we can know who to face.

Sanusi said the truth. Whether he is the first political appointee to be sacked does not matter. Should HE not say what is obvious just because he fears being affected?
No Nation living like we do can be great.

So, Jonathan need to work on the overbloated estacodes of his political appointees.
They are killing the Nation.

trix!:
Lets take a moment to really think about it, walk into any govt agency, you'd find lots of redundant workers, all those 'typist' and 'messengers'.. etc

sometimes you have to tip them to do their jobs, many civil servants even have other businesses outside, and do not take their jobs seriously. I've even heard people say they want civil service jobs cos they'd have time for themselves.

While sacking a whooping 50% may look like an overkill, I think a total revamping of the civil service would be in order. the corruption and redundancy is so much.[color=#000099][/color]

we are not even talking of Ghost worker that are even 25percent of the total work force.

slimyem: Sack Civil Servants?
...and 50 percent too?
What is Sanusi smoking??
Why not reduce the fat salaries and allowances of Legislooters, representathieves and top government officials who do almost nothing than sit around,talk trash and receive alerts at the end of the month?

Even woman get sence pass Sanusi!

yes sanusi is a theif all the plan of producing 5,000 naira that fails is here he want to get money for 2015 election God will fall sanusi these year, the children u want to starve by sacking their parent their God will punish your generation nobody will get the position you are now in your family baam

What is left for us as a people when 259 staff chop this kain money?

249 PPPRA staff get N5.7bn salary this year
Written by Isiaka Wakili
Wednesday, 28 November 2012 05:00

The Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) says the total salary of its 249 staff for the 2012 fiscal year is N5.7 billion, prompting concerns from federal lawmakers that the figures were too high.
PPPRA executive secretary Reginald Stanley disclosed the staff salaries yesterday at a budget defence before a joint committee of the National Assembly on petroleum resources (downstream).

Based on the total wage figures he gave, the average salary per worker at the agency stands at N23,694,780 for 2012, which is much higher than the annual salary of a permanent secretary.

Some of the National Assembly committee members including their chairman Senator Magnus Abe were alarmed by the huge salary figures.

“N5.725 billion for 249 workers? In this country?” Abe asked.

The committee members were enraged by what they saw as Stanley’s inability to provide documents backing the salary expenditure profile. Because of that, the committee stopped the budget defence session and ordered the management of the agency to report back on a date to be fixed later.

Abe did not say specifically what the committee will do about the salaries of PPPRA staff but said the amounts budgeted for government agencies were subject to review by legislators.

Stanley also told the committee that his agency gets 15 kobo on every litre of petroleum sold in the country as administrative charges, prompting further questions from lawmakers on how the monies generated were spent.

Abe said it was an offence for ministries, department and agencies to spend funds outside the Appropriation Act, adding: “If that has been going on in the past, we should put a final stop to it, it shouldn’t happen again.”

He added: “I want to bring to your attention, the attitude of some of our operators in the sector who always think that except appropriations are drawn directly from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, they are not accountable to the parliament for it.

“I want to make it very clear that, except the money you get from your father’s farm or your grandfather’s farm is spent, any amount that comes through you or to you is expended through any agency as part of the public responsibility is subject to a review by Nigerians and the National Assembly that represents the interest of Nigerians.

“Nobody can receive money on behalf of Nigerians, spend it on his own behalf without recourse to the National Assembly. I say it with a particular reference to agencies that are by law allowed to generate and make their own expenditures.”

Also speaking, the chairman of the House of Representatives committee on petroleum (downstream), Peterside Dakuku, said, “In this era of reforms, one great tool to reform is the budget. That is why we’re taking our budgetary process very seriously.”

Source

Civil Servants from the Northern part of the Country are the most incompetent.They are holding big position base on Federal Character and Quota system.Sanusi himself is a product of that system and he should first on the list cos he is incompetent.

sanusi is fake he want to send most nigeria to unemployment

GAR3TH: This is a step in the right direction and I don't understand why people are complaining. 70 %per cent of Federal Government’s revenue goes toward payment of salaries so why not cut it. The fact remains that Nigeria's federal government is over-bloated, We have 3-4 people doing what 1 person can do. Mind you that Sanusi him self is a civil servant but he himself knows that the amount of recurrent expenditures that the government waste on people like him is ridiculous. What Nigeria Needs is a small government and small salaries, simple.

I disagree with the 1st bolded part. I agree with the 2nd bolded part. Truely, Nigeria needs to re-brand its CIVIL SERVICE, no doubt. I'm aware we have ghost civil servants, unproductive civil servants and unnecessary civil servants. But,if the National Assembly salaries & allowances is 25%, imagine how much GEJ and his political appointees will get as salaries, allowances and in contracts. Let's put it at 25% as well. So, I think all what the 'GENUINE' civil servants gets is 70% minus 25% (National Assembly) minus 25% (GEJ & his political appointees) = 20% of recurrent expenditures.

teskyg: Civil Servants from the Northern part of the Country are the most incompetent.They are holding big position base on Federal Character and Quota system.Sanusi himself is a product of that system and he should first on the list cos he is incompetent.

It irritates me beyond measure when donkeys like you give everything an ethnic connotation. Truth is SLS hit the money shot when he said this, we really need to scale back the civil service and even more importantly, political appointees. Go to the National Theatre, Iganmu and see so many redundant agencies there with over bloated workforces doing less than nothing. The same is replicated all across the nation until you get to the epicenter of filth, corrosion and decay: Abuja. We will need to divert Rivers Niger & Benue to wash away the Augean stables which the F.C.T has become. We need to in my opinion do the following:

1. As a matter of urgency, MDAs should be merged or scrapped (e.g Ministries of Communication and Information Technology be merged, scrapping of the Ministry of Women Affairs, Niger-Delta Ministry, pilgrim boards, etc).
2. Switch to a unicameral legislative system, the NASS as its presently constituted is too expensive to maintain and serves no clearly discernible purpose.
3. Reduction of number of political appointees; why should GEJ have over 24 S.As (number keeps rising). You have Okupe, Abati, Omokri doing one person's job. You have also have idiotic positions like: Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values (Sarah Jibril)or even more idiotic; Senior Special Assistant to the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters (Godwin Duru. Same nonsense is replicated across the states and LGAs and needs to be curbed.
4. 50% is rather too high; lets start with the "football age" senior civil servants and also start thinning the lower levels; at least 25%-30% would be appropriate.

All the government can do is to make the civil service less attractive by creating more jobs and encouraging the private sector to do same. The agricultural sector is still enough to accomodate the teeming unemployed. Simple, reduce the salary of lawmakers, executives, special and senior special imbeciles/advisers. Divert the overage into agriculture to make the industry attractive to the younger generation. Encourage local production of fabrics, shoes, etc and ban importation of such into the country. Executives shld lead by examples, encourage the nigerian economy by patronising her products. If parliative measures are put in place, then you can go ahead with your demonic policies. If not uncle sanusi, stop displaying an attitude of gross wickedness and kingsize stubborness.

You want to sack 50% of civil servants so that funds will be made available for politicians to loot. Did you bother to suggest, what the 50% that you want to sack be doing. You have not even told us, who will be using the #5000 note you have introduced or maybe it's the sacked civil servant. I know you will not even agree for your salary to be cut down, talk less of sacking you. Please sir, always think before you talk.

U know that man SLS is a sadist and i would suggest that if 50% of civil servants should be sacked, he should go first.

maj007: WHY KILL A MOSQUITO WITH A STEALTH JET BOMBER?

Now I clearly understand two(2) things about SLS.
1. He has a passion for creating uproar to draw attention to himself.
2. His strategic thinking is always geared towards policies/decisions that will put serious strain on the masses.

Examples:
1. Banking reform: To start with, the reform was needed bt the level of immaturity with which it was carried made ground for so much collateral damage. The level of job loss witnessed during this reform was unprecedented. Poeple were wrong to think only bankers were affected. A lot of manufacturing and service companies who had their operations stiffened also laid off staff as they could not assess loan for a long time for business operations. The job loss trend is still with us till today. Yet, mallam wants to up the stake.

2. Cashless lagos: if u are a lagos based businessman, u will understand what a pain in the ars_e this policy is. It can be so frustrating. People loose money and deals because of this prematurely introduced policy.

3. 5,000 naira notes and coinage of 20, 10, 5 naira: everyone in this country, except sls, is aware of how senseless and incompatible that was with our society. This was adequately reflected in the level of public outcry and eventual suspension of the policy by FG.

4. Support for subsidy Removal: this same policy was meant to achieve the similar purpose as this new proposal of sack in the civil service. Now, can anyone mention any significant impact that the subsidy reinvestment committee has had on nigerian economy and nigerians. The subsidy was saved to be stolen by Abuja Stealers. The same thing will happen with the savings if 50% of civil servants are sacked.

5. Mass sack of civil servant. Hmmmmm. Yes, savings wll be achieved bt the resulting surge in unemployment rate will be catastrophic. I am very sure that will kick-start the revolution some of us want.

Lessons
Sanusi does not care whether the masses starve to death or not. As long as he become Emir of Kano , shikena.....

Gej won't be that foolish to follow such suggestion anyway. Bt this is Naija, u never know.

i thank god for your life my brother, this mallam is a retard, he said the same thing to the bank and all the low level staff were fired in the bank, yet no reform all the banks that had problems never came out of them, they were eventually sold and acquired, yet he wants to do this on a bigger scale where the country would now become very rich with very poor citixens, the idiot forgot to mention the amount that is lost to corruption. you should be specific in your sayings, reduce the salaries of governemt officials and reduce the cost of governance. He is a man that doesnt care about the masses.

[b] @ merengue:
It irritates me beyond measure when donkeys like you give everything an ethnic connotation. Truth is SLS hit the money shot when he said this, we really need to scale back the civil service and even more importantly, political appointees. Go to the National Theatre, Iganmu and see so many redundant agencies there with over bloated workforces doing less than nothing. The same is replicated all across the nation until you get to the epicenter of filth, corrosion and decay: Abuja. We will need to divert Rivers Niger & Benue to wash away the Augean stables which the F.C.T has become. We need to in my opinion do the following:

1. As a matter of urgency, MDAs should be merged or scrapped (e.g Ministries of Communication and Information Technology be merged, scrapping of the Ministry of Women Affairs, Niger-Delta Ministry, pilgrim boards, etc).
2. Switch to a unicameral legislative system, the NASS as its presently constituted is too expensive to maintain and serves no clearly discernible purpose.
3. Reduction of number of political appointees; why should GEJ have over 24 S.As (number keeps rising). You have Okupe, Abati, Omokri doing one person's job. You have also have idiotic positions like: Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values (Sarah Jibril)or even more idiotic; Senior Special Assistant to the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters (Godwin Duru. Same nonsense is replicated across the states and LGAs and needs to be curbed.
4. 50% is rather too high; lets start with the "football age" senior civil servants and also start thinning the lower levels; at least 25%-30% would be appropriate.[/b]

You are a ram.People like Sanusi has no right what so ever to speak of over bloated Civil Service.Do you know how many people he recruited into CBN who are idle and doing nothing?

youngmonie: Something they should have done a long time ago..... common every body knows that the civil service has a lot of inefficiencies, and those clamouring that there will be high unemployment again, RUbbish. When you spend money on capital project, a bulk of it goes down to the private sector who in turn employ people. Common 70% of the yearly budget on expenditure for wages, which sane government does that . Look around the world most governments are even reducing public servants and cutting their budgets, whilst spending on capital projects that will provide jobs.

But then again this is Nigeria!!!!! (Principles of Economics Dont always work)

it never worked in the banks because their are so many factors involved, the reason there are so many people in the civil service is because there are no jobs , it wouldn't have been as bad as this if a lot of money was not lost to corrupt practices.

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slimyem: Sack Civil Servants?
...and 50 percent too?
What is Sanusi smoking??
Why not reduce the fat salaries and allowances of Legislooters, representathieves and top government officials who do almost nothing than sit around,talk trash and receive alerts at the end of the month?

Kai,you,you savy smoke better things wallahi.
Unlike sanusi n many here.you are right,that's what gov need to do.

Sometimes when this man talks i see him as an intellectual animal [b][/b][color=#990000][/color]

At least we now know that the country's problem is the bloated and lunatic civil service; Sanusi at the forefront of it all.

The truth is very bitter which every way they spell it. He is right. Everybody even UK and Europeans are cutting down their civil servant. Think about it what are these people doing there apart from taking bribe from you all. Insult me pls I wouldn't reply you.