Again, El-Rufa’i and LG workers

The recent sacking of local government workers by Governor Nasir el-Rufa’i of Kaduna state left me in a state of sceptic, about the governor’s vision aimed at reducing or alleviating suffering to the plebeians who mostly live and feed on meagre pay.
Of course, the governor is a formidable intellectual with vision to revive the state civil service and other sectors, and some developed countries as his reference point for transformation. But where El-Rufai gets it wrong, things don’t work effectively for his version of change, in a society like ours. We are too conservative for reformation in the civil service, owing to many years of brutalization and dislocation of processes and ethics in running governmental affairs. Developed countries El-Rufa’i is trying to emulate have social intervention programmes aimed at providing the basic necessities of life to the citizenry including monetary stipends.
Recently, in Columbia, government paid a huge wherewithal to ‘Coca’ farmers as inducement, so that the farmers will compromise and stop cultivating the Coca leaf! Coca leaf is used for making ‘cocaine’ but Columbia’s government finds it worthy that way, in their quest to stop the proliferation of farming the leaf.
Sadly, reverse is the case in Kaduna state as Governor El-Rufa’i is always in a rush to bring change akin to fire brigade approach. Disengaging employees from work without providing them alternatives to survive is a crime against humanity.
Developed countries will not dare to adopt this kind of El-Rufai’s version of change. So from where El-Rufai is copying these changes seems ambivalent.
Therefore, my plea to the governor – Your Excellency Sir, I strongly believe that you are conversant with the nature of how things are evolving globally, that’s why you have the passion to elevate us into global standard. However, before you adopt or impose a change, please kindly and keenly carry the people along because initiating a change overnight will not in any way become the cheap and cheapest panacea to our lingering mess. Frankly, gradual process should be the yardstick for proffering solutions. Not these inhuman policies.

Jabir T. Usman,
Sabon Gari, Tudun Wada, Kaduna

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