Payroll: NULGE, MHWUN Fault Use Of Consultants

The National Union of Lo
cal Government Employees (NULGE), and  its counter part, the medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) Bayelsa State chapter, have faulted the state government over the use of consultants to prepare salary payroll of members of the unions.
The Bayelsa State NULGE President, Comrade Akpo Ekiagha said the joint unions’ positions in a communiqué issued after an emergency meeting of the unions held last Tuesday in Yenegoa,  made available to The Tide.
Akpo said the development had rendered workers in the account Department of the State Local Government Service Commission redundant.
The union Stated that the consultants were smiling to the bank at the expense of the workers with huge amount of money running into millions of naira monthly.
The unions alleged that the services of the consultants were fraudulent and a  conduit pipe to drain state resources, stressing that the best option for the state government was to rescind the decision and the contract.
The unions said workers of the Local Government Service Commission were at the receiving end of the policy to engage the consultants for the salary preparation as qualified accountants had been rendered jobless by the state government.
The communiqué signed by the NULGE state President Comrade Akpo Ekiagha and MHWUN State  Chairman, Comrade Biu Josiah, also faulted the ongoing staff biometrics for local government workers.
They accused the Bayelsa State Local Government, Service Commission Chairman Hon Talford Ongolo of being insensitive to the plight of the council workers.
The Unions alleged that the local government service commission’s chairman was running the affairs of the commission as a sole administrator in total disregard and flagrant violation of the unified local  government service rules.
They decried the alleged position of the Commission’s chairman to post junior officials to head their superior and senior officers the reby  undermining service rules.
The unions threatened to embark on industrial action to ensure service rules and regulations are strictly adhered to in order to promote healthy local government service commission in Bayelsa  State .