We’ll vote you out, workers tell Ayade

Despite receiving their monthly salaries as at when due, a section of civil servants in Cross River state, under the aegis of Workers’ Solidarity Front, have vowed to vote Gov Ben Ayade out of office in 2019.
Speaking yesterday, leader of the group, Saviour Akpeyi, accused the governor of footdragging promotion of workers and alleged that Ayade was tactically frustrating efforts by the state civil service commission to promote workers.
Akpeyi opined that the governor was not in support of the promotion exercise from the beginning, but that he “had to agree in principle when NLC threatened to go on strike last year”.
“We cannot blame the NLC because the governor has surreptitiously stopped the exercise.
If you look at the whole thing, you will see the finger of the governor.
“Or how do you explain a situation where people were given letters and started collecting salaries based on their new status only for the Accountant General’s office to stop such payment and revert to their old salary structure which carried their former level?” The group leader claimed that the commission had finished typing promotion letters of civil servants in virtually all the MDAs but that the governor asked them to hold on to it, claiming that the state does not have money to pay workers if the promotion is implemented.
He further said the commission was only playing hide-and-seek game with the promotion exercise because “any serious commission would have sent out over 80 per cent letters of promotion by January this year.
First, the commission did not resume on time”.
“We are at a loss as to why the commission started the process in the first place.
Some people were promoted last and were paid but they later stopped the payment, while many have since gone for interviews and their letters are stuck at the commission,” he said.

 

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