PDP condemned the illegal mass sack/retirement of works by Governor elrufai




April 10,2021



The Kaduna State Chapter of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), vehemently condemned the illegal mass sack/retirement of the 2,118 Local Government staff and yet another over 1,600 staff of the Primary Health Centres, by governor Nasir Elrufai, the governor of Kaduna State.

The action by the governor is outrightly unlawful, callous and smacks off the insensitivity of the APC government to the plight of the good people of the state.

It is disheartening that a government which asserts itself as a believer of the rule of law, however, never hesitate to break the same law in pursuit of its unscrupulous policies,based on their whims and caprices.

Decisions of this nature by the Elrufai administration since assumption of office, has been responsible for the heightened insecurity and poverty which has become so pervasive in the State, to the extent that the slogan 'Centre of Learning' which Kaduna State is known for is now referred to as the "kidnapping hub of the Nation."

This, and several other actions of the governor leaves all and sundry, without any iota of doubt, that indeed the Elrufai/APC led government, just as it is at the Federal level, lacks human face and is a conglomeration of family and friends that lacks empathy and compassion in governance.

Any administration that thrives on cruel policies and programmes is obviously anti-people and merciless, which negates the objective of good governance.

Going down memory lane, it is on record that Kaduna State has recorded the most unprecedented highest number of, not only, retrenched or dismissed workers, but sadly too, whose benefits and gratuities have been denied for years.

It clearly leaves no one in doubt that the governance style of Nasir Elrufai led APC government is more about fostering physical,psychological and emotional hardship on the citizenry.

With an empirical record of over 100,000 unlawfully retired or summarily dismissed workers as at today, and still counting, multiplied by an average of 10 dependants per household, so affected by Elrufai's actions thus, summing up to cover about a million people.

This, coupled with the demolition of houses and small businesses owned by the
down trodden masses, has caused so much havoc to the small and medium scale
enterprises to the point that one can conclusively say that the government
doesn't want their presence in the State rather, it wants to foist a capitalist driven
economy on the citizenry, further making life unbearable and brutish for the common man.

The impact of the insecurity in the State, apart from denying the largely agrarian
population from accessing their farmlands as well as fear of being kidnapped,
which in the past used to largely be in the villages and outskirts, however is far
becoming a common everyday occurrence, even within the city centres.

It is even more worrisome that the lackadaisical attitude of the governor of the
State in not showing empathy to the families affected by the various acts of
kidnapping, banditry and even those who suffer fatalities leaves much to be desired.

The grandstanding attitude of the governor and his officials/aides gives them away
that they did not really earned the votes of the people, otherwise, the citizens of
Kaduna State will not have been treated with so much disdain.

It has now become a norm in the state that workers' salaries are inconsistent and
fluctuates on a monthly basis same too with even the payment of the salaries.

As at today, the civil servants in the State don't know their monthly net take home
pay. The average civil servant in Kaduna State do not enjoy security of his
contracted tenure as scheduled in the civil service rules.

Welfare of the citizenry, most especially workers, who toil day and night to ensure
the smooth running of government and generality of the people should, ordinarily,
always be of paramount importance in the scheme of things.

In sane climes,
unemployed citizens are given monthly stipends to keep them going, so as to
prevent social insecurity.

The State Government under Elrufai, claimed to have increased
the internally generated revenue to over #5 billion monthly. If this is true, it wouldn't have been possible without the Hard work and commitment of these civil servants.

Governor Nasir Elrufai of Kaduna State has broken the Guiness Book of World
Records, as the governor or leader that sacked over 22,000 workers in one full
swoop! Sadly, these workers sacked since 2016 have not been paid their
entitlements.

The historic negative record of Governor El-Rufai is not only in clear violation of
the fundamental human rights of those so affected, but also clear disregard to the
extant Kaduna State civil service rules, provisions and procedures, stated thereto,
in the conditions of service as it relates to appointments of persons into the State
civil service, and also contravenes section 210 of the 1999 Constitution as amended,
which guarantees pension and gratuities rights of the retirees and also without
any fair hearing to the sacked workers who were issued their
dismissal/retirement letters starting from Tuesday, 6th April, 2021

The PDP calls for a reversal of this mass and unethical sack of all those so affected,
and payment of their entitlements by the Kaduna State Government.

Signed:
Abraham Alberah Catoh
State Publicity Secretary,
PDP,KDS

politics.
PDP should shut up .
those sacked had one problem or the other and those retired had already passed their retirement date. some where even ghost workers. Nigerians are the problem of themselves.

This PDP and kaduna ex governors should hide their face in shame, what they cannot achieve in 16yrs, elrufai is doing that, he has turned kaduna to construction site, multiple projects going on simultaneously..

Elrufai insists for anyone to work with the state civil service, that person must possess a minimum requirements of diploma, the people he asked to leave has less than diploma, and the old efulefu civil servant contributing nothing were asked to go, to accommodate young and abled minds..