₦airaland Forum

Payment of minimum wage, training of officers and housing scheme for civil servants top agenda
Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, on Wednesdayreiterated his resolve to reposition the state civil service for optimal productivity.

Addressing the civil servants, after inspecting facilities at the State Secretariat, on Wednesday, the Governor harped on the need to return joy and confidence to the Civil Service.

“Civil Service is like engine of government and for a long time, government was removed from the service. I have come to return government back to you. If we don’t get the Civil Service right, get the required motivation, provide job security and satisfaction, it means that the engine of government is broken down. I have come to give you hope, just know that the old order is gone and I have come with a new order,” the Governor said.

Expressing disaffection over the deplorable state of some of the facilities at the Secretariat, Governor Uzodinma promised that water will be restored within the next few weeks; electricity reconnected to disconnected areas next month and engineers to be sent to assess damages in the buildings for immediate rehabilitation.

The Governor assured that he will make payment of salaries a priority: “I have arranged with the banks, whether FAAC comes or not on or before 25th of every month, your salaries will be paid in full. Under no condition should you be paid anything less than your 100% salaries.”

The Governor promised that payment of the new minimum wage will soon commence as he has given marching orders to the Joint Committee on minimum wage to submit their report so that implementation can commence immediately.

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Yet, the government insists that the economy is improving. Is that not a contradiction?

There is no contradiction. Before we were importing virtually everything we eat. But today, it is not so. The rice we eat is produced locally. Even if you say we are still importing but the quantity has reduced drastically. What you see now are smuggled in. We used to import eggs from South Africa. We are no longer importing eggs. We used to import chicken. Just look at those things.

What of the jobs we have created. Nobody is assessing this government the way it should be assessed. People are assessing it based on the emotion whether they like Buhari or not, whether Buhari talks or not, whether he cares or not, whether he speaks to them or not. That is not how to assess a government. Assess what we met when we came. Assess the fact that we were barely few months into the administration when we went into a recession and in less than one year we came out of the recession. What we said was that put the money in the hands of Nigerians and we will come out of the recession in one year. World Bank and IMF said three years but we came out in one year. They only thing they are telling us now is that it is shaky. That if we are not careful we will go back into recession but we have done three years and we have not gone back. And there are countries that slipped into recession with us – Brazil, South Africa, and it took them three years to come out. Yet, you people do not attribute brilliance to us.

We are fixing roads, power, before we came, power was bad. We know we have not hit the actual result Nigerians are expecting but we have left where we were before. Hunger is making us to under-appreciate what we have done.

Source: https://www.thenicheng.com/nigerians-should-praise-the-buhari-government-for-being-responsible-amaechi/