Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa state has announced that all the redundant directors and their assistants in various ministries, departments and agencies in the state will soon be moved back to classroom to teach.
He announced this yesterday at the opening ceremony of a five-day capacity building training for public servant in the state service, with the theme Inclusive Governance as a Key to Sustainable Development, Role of the Public Service.”
Al-Makura explained that government was talking a pragmatic decision as schools in the state were being run without adequate teachers.
He further explained that government is taking step to arrest the downfall of education system in the state, as workers are retiring day by day and the state wage bill is not subsided to hired another person to replace the vacuum “if you have to hire someone then you have to provide his emolument from elsewhere where can we get that with our lean resources.”
The governor said what government was trying to do was to look at those directors and their assistants that could spend more than two months without a single file passing through their desks to go back to classroom and teach for a while so that they could make good of bad situation.
He assured the indigenes of his commitment to employ 2, 000 graduates into the state civil service before the end of his tenure in 2019, adding that each local government in the state “will be allowed to bring at least one hundred person for the employment.”
“I will do that with every sense of responsibility,” he said.
He also promised to give workers all their leverages, welfare in order for them to excel, but warned that government was going to adhere strictly in ensuring that all the regulations that are in the general order of financial instructions was followed.
On the labour relations the governor warned members of the NLC in the state not to see themselves as opposition to the government, noting that being within the labour leadership “does not give them graduation to be an opposition as most of the leaders are found of castigating his administration, particularly on social media, thereby directed the Head of Civil Service and other Labour leaders to take cautionary measures.
Earlier, the Head of Civil Service, Mr. Thomas Ogiri, said the state government had recently approved the promotion of 9, 000 civil servants, construction of 500 housing units and provision of furniture and vehicles for the workers.
