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  • ACN will not treat workers as slaves, Akintelure assures

    ACN will not treat workers as slaves, Akintelure assures

    The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) deputy governorship candidate in Ondo State, Dr. Paul Akintelure, has assured the civil servants that an ACN-led administration will not treat them as slaves.

    Regretting that the present government had abandoned the workers for too long, Akintelure said the people must be delivered from the visionless administration.

    He also assured that people in rural communities would benefit from the ACN government which, if elected, will be people- oriented.

    The medical practitioner said the residents and indigenes will experience real dividends of democracy in contrast to the current pauperised situation in the state.

    Akintelure, who cited the ACN- controlled neighbouring states like Osun, Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and Edo as examples of what his party can doif elected, said the sunshine state would start enjoying the benefits of progressive governance with effect from February 13, 2013.

    He said with climates suitable for fish farming, rice and cocoa cultivation across the state, the promised 30,000 job creation within 100 days will not be an impossibility for his administration.

    “This will be generated through Public Private Partnership (PPP). We will also put in place various need-based agencies for waste management, traffic control, environmental sanitations etc,” he said.

    He said workers in the state deserve better treatment than what they currently get from the LP government.

    Akintelure added: “Civil Servants are not slaves. Their welfare would be of paramount interest to the ACN government. Our own government will not treat you as slaves because you are the ones laying the golden eggs.

    “You must vote for ACN to replicate the glorious experience of the western region through the present south west regional integration agenda. We must do this for our children. Let’s keep our date with destiny come October 20.”

  • Sacked NIMC workers bemoan fate

    Sacked NIMC workers bemoan fate

    About 4000 workers of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) sacked by the Director-General, Chris Onyemena, have threatened to hand over the DG to God, if his decision is not rescinded even as some have been recalled and directed to attend a workshop in Asaba Delta state.

    Some of the recalled workers, who went for the workshop at Hotel Benieza Asaba, The Nation gathered, were those who have higher degrees. They were tutored on registration of National Identity card and management of data base as anchored by the Deputy Director in charge of training, Mrs. Florence Igboke.

    One of the victims who did not want to be named said, ‘’We are not against his sack but let him follow the due process of sack. Some of us have worked for 15 years, 20 years and 29 years

    Last year, the commission said it had discovered 4,000 “ghost workers” in its fold and was planning to reduce its personnel cost which rose from N3.3 billion in 2011 to N4.2billion in 2012.

    The Labour Adviser to the Director-General of the commission, Ayo Olorunfemi, said the organisation was one of the few offices in the country with majority of its workforce in the junior cadre.

    The affected staff members were inherited by NIMC from the defunct Department of National Civic Registration (DNCR), under the former Ministry of Internal Affairs, now Ministry of Interior, the commission said.