NULGE Backs Civil Service Reform

The leadership of National Union of Local Government
Employees (NULGE), Bayelsa State chapter, has backed the proposed moves of the
state government under Hon. Seriake Dickson to sanitise the state civil
service.

Comrade Nathaniel Kaka state chairman of the union stated
this with newsmen while commending the Bayelsa State government efforts to
reposition the state civil service.

He said the idea of fishing out ghost workers through the
biometric verification was a step in the right direction to reorganise and
reposition the civil service by the Governors, stressed that the exercise will
assist the government to ascertain genuine workers and ghost workers on the
government payroll in the state.

Comrade Kaka said “there is nothing wrong to find out the
real workers”, stressing that the union will react when there are obvious political
witch-hunts within the system of the exercise.

The NULGE’s boss said he supports the plans to downsize the
workforce at the third tier of government in Bayelsa State, stressed that they
are lots of redundant workers within the council system in the state but have
simply refused to retire from the system rather staying put in the system.