After four difficult, hard and uneasy months without salaries, just when staff from four Gombe State Government owned institutions are expecting all their unpaid salaries from the past four months to settle their numerous debts and carter for their families and needs, the State Govt just added salt to their overgrown wounds and rubbed it in by dispatching a document/circular which is Baseless, Unprofessional, Flimsy, Embarrassing and totally Out of Place.
This Injustice and Unfair treatment is very unbearable and a difficult punishment of the highest order you can ever subject a civil servant to (only one who experience months without salary can narrate). Reasons are:
1. The govt can’t hold a public servants salary and wait for 4 whole and long months without giving a single reason for its action, and just when its propagandize to the whole world that its paying December salaries to its workers, thereby arousing a glimmer of hope from the minds of those estranged workers, then suddenly bring out a flimsy and uncalled for document/circular.
2. The Govt should understand that there is a great difference between the academic system/setting of tertiary institutions and that of secondary/primary schools, therefore the dispatched document/circular and its whole content is unprofessional, mischievous and just a means of the continued victimization of people who has already suffered allot. (Professional and unbiased minds should refer to section 2b of d document and judge d Gaffe made please).
3. The dispatch of the document by the Govt at a point in time when hopes and expectations of payments of all outstanding salaries is at its peak (Christmas and new year festival)can be seen as a means or excuse to shy away from paying these already suffering and victimised public servants.
We therefore call on the Govt and the General public to please have mercy and fear of God and halt this punishment and maltreatment. idan gemun dan uwanka ya kama da wuta,katayashi Kashewa,sai kuma ka shafawa naka ruwa.. Don bakasan kaima yaushe naka zai iya kamawa ba. Long Live Gombe state. Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria