
Zamfara State civil servants now report to their duty posts twice a week, Mondays and Tuesdays, following high cost of transportation and economic challenges in the State
The investigation done by reporters clearly showed that on Friday, many ministries and government agencies were very quiet, like graveyards.
A high-ranking person, who requested to remain anonymous, told our reporter that it was necessary because the employees couldn’t afford the cost of transportation to their jobs.
“The civil servants cannot afford the transportation fare being charged due to the escalation of fuel price.
“We cannot query any worker for not reporting at their duty posts because we all know the economic hardship being faced by the people.
“But senior civil servants have no excuse for not reporting to work because we are the heads of ministries and agencies,” he said.
When we spoke to the State chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Sani Haliru, he mentioned that the two labor unions in the State, namely the NLC and the TUC, are working hard to arrange a meeting with the State government. Their goal is to find a permanent solution to the problem.
One of the civil servants, Isah Abdulahi, who spoke to DAILY POST, said that almost all the civil servants have used the three months salary arrears paid to them by the State government to service the debts they were owing.