The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), has called on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, to recall the over 3,000 workers of the state sacked by the governor two months ago. The congress, in a five-page position paper, said the governor should have resisted sacking the workers employed by his predecessor, former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, immediately he assumed office.
The governor had lamented the dilemma he found himself on May 29, when he assumed office over the payment of the state’s workforce which he puts at over 60,000, with a monthly cost of N7,437,940,015.38 including the N678 million state government’s support to local government councils for the payment of primary school teachers’ salaries.
The governor had explained that he sacked the workers because their recruitment was riddled with fraud and corruption and it was not logical that a state struggling to meet its salaries obligations to have such huge workers’ base. But the state chairman of the NLC, Comrade David Ofoeyeno, who doubles as the state President of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), said the governor goofed by sacking those employed in 2013 and 2014. According to Ofoeyeno, the irregularities the governor observed only affected those employed this year by the state’s Civil Service Commission (CSC).
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