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NLC Demands Adequate Govt Attention To Parastatals

Fuel hawkers at the Central Area at Garki in Abuja last Thursday
The Nigeria Labour Con
gress NLC has enjoined the state government to give adequate attention to the state owned public corporations and parastals.
Speaking at this year’s May Day celebration in Port Harcourt on Sunday, NLC chairperson in the state, Comrade Beatrice Itubo, said that the NLC Leadership had observed the myriad of problems faced by some of the public corporations and parastatals, especially in terms of funding.
Itubo said the predicaments faced by state owned public corporations and parastatals began when the state government stopped paying adequate attention to the facilities in these establishments and rather took to patronizing private individuals and companies which offer similar services provided by these state owned corporations.
She said that the State Public Corporations such as the State Newspaper Corporation, Government Printing Press and the State Broadcasting Corporation, among others which were established to service government needs are now only but shadows of their glorious old day.
The chairperson implored the state government to make it a government policy that all needs of government in these areas be acquired from these state-owned corporations as this action according to her will provide the corporations with the needed funds and patronage for their survival.
She advised the state government to match word with action so as to alleviate the plight of residents of the state with the promise of re-engineering a new Rivers State devoid of wastages.
She also called upon the state government to consider the recruitment of fresh brains into the service as to ensure continuity.
The Labour Leader said that the state public service has witnessed massive manpower loss over the years due to deaths, retirements and resignations etc, stressing that not much has been done to replace the loss of manpower in the state public service apart from the scanty employment of staff in 2007 and the recent employment of teachers in 2013.
Philip Okparaji