THIS WRITE-UP OF CPS IS EXPLICIT ENOUGH TO TRUE PATRIOTS!!! The Change that is resisted: The screening is a saviour
By Kingsley Fanwo
In moments like this, I always prefer to put off the toga of office and wear the garment of the pen glory with the power of furious ink to dispel the amalgamation of falsehood peddled by those who failed to paddle the state to glory when they had the opportunity to so do.
The recently conducted staff verification exercise by the Governor Yahaya Bello administration was a bold step by a bold leader to achieve bold results. That bold step has driven some people into a frozen cold; those who have brazenly stolen our common patrimony without an iota of remorse for pillaging our resources.
As a citizen of Kogi State from a remotely Takete Ide, I share the dream of a state that will refuse to dash its resources to people who contribute nothing to its economy.
The Fake Life Can't Continue
Before now, appointment letters were shared at beer parlours and on brothel beds. Others were products of nepotistic recklessness and infantile disregard to due process.
The corruption of our payrolls at every level has dragged is to the present situation where we only go to Abuja to collect allocations that cannot even pay salaries. Our roads are bad. Our hospitals are aching. Our able bodied youth have no jobs. We cannot go on like this.
Those who will no longer be on our payrolls
Regardless of the treachery of the opponents, the government of Alhaji Yahaya Bello is not interested in sacking any legitimate worker. No single legitimate worker will lose his/her job.
Some names on our payrolls do not exist in personae. They were names cooked up to defraud our dear state.
Two, some names on our payrolls also draw salaries from companies in Kaduna, Kano, Lagos, Abuja and Ilorin among others. They work in the companies outside Kogi and received alerts from Kogi State.
Three, some workers forged papers to gain employment and promotion. Government cannot reward such. These party constitute part of my own definition of ghost workers.
Beneficiaries of the exercise
The ultimate beneficiaries of the staff verification exercise are in dichotomies. One, workers who have been deprived of their full pay as a result of overloaded wage bill. Now they will be relieved as the wage bill has been purged.
Two, the people on the street will begin to enjoy some level of patronage. Our workforce constitute less than 10% of our population but takes over 95% of our resources. No government can survive with that.
The funds that hitherto went to ghosts will now be freed for development. It will translate to better roads, improved healthcare, more water facilities and even more jobs. The people are the biggest beneficiaries.
Previous governments are not oblivious of this malady but they didn't summon the political will to save the situation. That Governor Yahaya Bello could brave the odds to resolve the issue once and for all will go Dow in history as a moment of epoch.
And the reactions
The reaction trailing the recent staff verification exercise is not unexpected. Change is always resisted, transparency is despised in climes where fraud benefits the lucre lords.
It is not impossible that some politicians are deploying hoodlums to disturb the peace of the land. Social network crooners are smiling to the banks as they have been paid handsomely to deride an exercise that will take Kogi to new heights.
To those who are bold to believe: Governor Yahaya Bello will not sack any legitimate worker. Promoters of ghost workers can go on to attack the Governor. Kogi people appreciate this painstaking work of freeing our resources for the benefit of our people. We stand with this brave example of fairness.
Thanks.

In this hard times.

Ministry of Labour should look into this issue:

Recently, Genesis Group Nigeria, the company that owns the Genesis Restaurant and Deluxe Cinemas chain cut workers’ salaries by various percentages, with some workers even getting a 50% pay cut and some getting sacked for no reason but “the situation of the economy”.

Yes, we all know the economy is bad but as insiders, we know how much the company makes monthly and how much of our blood and sweat is put into making those billions for them.

Sometimes we are slaved tirelessly, even till late hours without getting paid overtime (company policy) all in the name of meeting “a quota”. Note: The economy doesn’t affect the company, they increased prices of their food et al to match the situation, yet they’re cutting salaries. Even if they didn’t increase prices, they would still be making profits of over 70% on most items.

Drivers and Kitchen Staff that previously earned a meagre N30,000 now earn between N15000 – N20000 and most of them can barely afford to feed their families, not to even talk about fees, rent and other bills.

A widow who works as a staff here said one of her 2 children has to stay at home next term because she can’t afford his school fees and she’s hardly employable anywhere else. The rate at which people are being laid off is unfair & inhumane not to talk about the way staff are treated.

I’ve worked in this company for years and each day I pray to God that I find a better job at a company that values its workers. Honestly, over 95% of staff here are only here because they haven’t gotten anything better and would gladly leave at the slightest opportunity.

The company owns several restaurants but can’t feed its workers properly, the food we are given is what prisoners would reject, most times its half-cooked, excessively salty, no maggi and the worst of all, no meat and they can’t even provide water for us to drink.

I am pained, I am angry, how do I explain to my children that they can no longer have 3 square meals because “my oga at the top” is a heartless and inconsiderate man who only cares about how much he makes while neglecting the large number of families he’s destroying.

If you go to any Genesis Fast food, you’d never know of our plight because the staff are forced to put on fake smiles and pretend to customers, while suffering inside. There’s no point for people to patronize Genesis anymore when despite all the money you spend, it’s all going to the pocket of one person while we the “money generators” are treated like slaves.

We have nobody to fight for us. Anybody that opposes, gets fired instantly and their terminal benefits forfeited. We know that even if the economy gets better tomorrow, our salaries will not be restored because we work for greedy sets of human beings.

We live in a country where employers get away with all sorts of things because the system doesn’t work. A company where your boss can walk in and slap you for no reason or maybe because someone annoyed him at home, is that one company?

To all of you bringing your CVs, we here are struggling to leave. God help us all. Shalom.