Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned what it described as the arbitrary and deliberate sacking of civil servants of the State by the PDP administration led by Governor Dauda Lawal.
This was contained in a press statement issued to newsmen in Gusau, the State capital, by the Publicity Secretary of APC in Zamfara State, Malam Yusuf Idris Gusau.
The statement further stated that the people of the State woke up to the disturbing demonstration of over 3,000 workers who went through the recent verification exercise on the state civil service without any dent, but were asked to stay at home, with their services no longer needed.
“The affected persons, who have spent between 10 to over 20 years in dedicated service with a large number of dependants and are suspected to be sympathetic to political parties other than the ruling PDP in the state, have been turned into beggars overnight and have been wallowing in poverty and hunger without salary for about 10 months now, which is unbearable,” the statement added.
“So these people, who are not the only victims of the state administration, have turned out in large numbers to seek spiritual intervention from the Almighty by praying at the Gusau Eid praying ground with supplications from the Holy Qur’an.
“Comparatively, during the immediate past APC administration under the current Minister of State for Defence, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, apart from giving employment to 1,400 persons waiting for regularisation, over 9,000 persons including political appointees were employed into the State workforce, in addition to 336 teachers and 200 nurses and midwives, with meagre resources when the monthly federal allocation was only about N3 billion, but the government was determined to boost social security.
“However, today’s Zamfara State government under Governor Dauda Lawal and the PDP, which collects between N19 billion to N30 billion monthly as federal allocation, in addition to its acclaimed N2 billion monthly as locally generated revenue, only uses the money to jolly away life with family and friends while sacking workers to save more money for their jamboree.”
The statement called on the State government, especially the Governor, to immediately reinstate the affected civil servants to save the State from an already escalating insecurity situation, as they too, as citizens, have equal rights to the resources of the state.
