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Labour Raises The Alarm Over Fg’s Plan To Retrench Workers

Organised labour, yesterday, raised the alarm over plans to lay-off workers through the merger of Federal Government’s ministries, parastatals and agencies (MDAs).

Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) said the decision of the Federal Government to commence the process of merging some MDAs and scrap others was geared at sending thousands of public service employees into the labour market.

ASCSN Secretary General, Alade Bashir Lawal, expressed the shock that the Federal Government had chosen a time when the world, including Nigeria, was mourning the death of thousands of people killed, daily, by coronavirus to implement the Steve Oronsaye report which recommended the merger of some MDAs and the scrapping of others.

“The reality is that if some MDAs are merged and others scrapped, thousands of public servants will surely lose their jobs.

“We cannot understand the logic behind government’s decision at this material time when Nigerians are losing their loved ones while thousands of others are being afflicted by coronavirus,” the union said.


According to the ASCSN, the impression created before the public since this news broke out was that the government had no empathy and insensitive to the suffering of millions of Nigerians.

It added that Nigeria was already rated the poorest country in the world and if government carried out its plan to throw thousands of workers into the market, it would lead to monumental social crisis, the end result of which no one could predict.

The union ened President Muhammadu Buhari to direct relevant organs of government plotting to implement the Oronsaye report to desist forthwith so as not to trigger off industrial and social unrest in the country.

It alleged that the fifth columnists in government are pushing for the implementation of the Oronsaye report in order to mislead the president to enter into collision course with millions of Nigerian workers and thereby disrupt the prevailing cordial relationship existing between his istration and labour.

ASCSN urged labour unions, civil society groups, religious leaders, traditional rulers and eminent citizens to prevail on the government to put a halt to the ill-advised policy in the interest of industrial peace and harmony.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/labour-raises-the-alarm-over-fgs-plan-to-retrench-workers/

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Tissaia:
Raising fake alarm Buhari will not do that.
The best president ever

Are you sure?

Can any move from this present government shock me anymore? I don't think so...

Abeg merge all the unproductive agencies of government with duplicity of responsibilities.Let save cost of governance.

Is Nigeria not ripe for a revolution? How long will all this nonsense last? Are we not fed up? Hmmm!

atiku4President:

Are you sure?

Yes

ibksiv:
Is Nigeria not ripe for a revolution? How long will all this nonsense last? Are we not fed up? Hmmm!

Start it in Western Nigeria first

False alarm!!!!

Ministry of power was merged with works and housing, tell us how many staff lost their jobs?

If we indeed want this istration to keep cutting cost of running the Government, then we should be ready to accept to pay One minster instead of paying various ministers for similar roles

Officialgarri:
False alarm!!!!

Self employment is the best Employment, Like if you agree. me to become one of our Resllers and smile to bank daily.
Lockdown is over, we are now doing pay on delivery Nationwide. Our Lithium Devices are performing wonders for those that got theirs earlier, powering their houses 24hours. Get this uninterruptable enjoyment in your home. You know what to do, do it now.

When the time was ripe for Nigerians to spark a revolution against bad leadership, they felt reluctant.....

Now Covid19 is here to stay.....It will eat you all up while your govt sit back and watch while they feed on what is posed to be yours as palliative while you are on lockdown...

Nigerians!!!.....Enjoy yo new visitor Covid19

Those shouting false alarm music be from Jupiter

Like this cursed regime haven't done worse

Brace up people...difficult times ahead. Private organizations already taking hard measures....I know this will also and victory will be ours.

It is well

Nwanyiogwashi:
Start it in Western Nigeria first

It all Start..................
The beginning of the end

Could be true

Believe it or not,
The world is in a deep mess.

Who do us? God av Mercy

Sai sai sai sai sai sai


Babaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Get me that Steve Oronsaye...I need to reset his brain..

make seniors go rest abeg, them no dey tire ni?

make them create room for young ones to enter abeg

e don clear for their eyes now

Tissaia:
Raising fake alarm Buhari will not do that.
The best president ever

Keep deceiving and disappointing yourself

It's already part of you

What's wrong with that? Yes I understand that government scraping some agencies and merging others may lead to job losses. But let's face it, how effective has the federal civil service been anyway? Most of them are there just to collect salaries and nothing more. Deadwoods and redundant lots.
A good number of these agencies already have duplicated functions. We must that it was under the government of Jonathan that the Steve Orasanye was set up and he came out with these recommendations.
Government cannot continue to be the largest employer of labour. It exposes the society to a lot of structural shocks that could otherwise be avoidable.
In a situation where recurrent expenditure is consuming over 70% of our budget as has been the case for the past 15 years, we can't expect much development. Government does not exist just to pay salaries. The civil service across the federal and state level have not shown themselves deserving of such a large chunk of our budgets.

please this should be a lie!!!

Is the civil service not bloated?

can't bliv this

federal govt worker now

FG has come again o
After receiving Abacha loot.

Instead of them giving reasonable palliatives to these workers that are underpaid they want to sack.

I wonder why uncle Coro is yet to visit these leaders with beastful heart.