Civil servants in
Adamawa on Tuesday staged a protest in front of the Government House Yola
calling for the removal of three government officials from office.
The
protesters, led by the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr
Dauda Maina, shut the entrance to government house for several hours. They were
demanding for the sacking of the Chairman of the Adamawa State Primary
Healthcare Agency, Dr Abdullahi Belel.
They also demanded for the sacking of
the Executive Secretary Adamawa State Post Primary School Board, Mallam
Abdullahi Jingi and the General Manager of Adamawa State Transport Company, Mr
Ahmed Nyako. Maina said that the call for the sack of the affected persons was
based on their anti workers stance.
He said that the affected person where
responsible for causing friction between workers and the government. He alleged
that the on-going health workers strike in the state was caused by the
executive chairman of the state primary healthcare agency, Dr Abdullahi Belel.
“Abdullahi Jingi of post primary school board and Ahmed Nyako of Adamawa
transport company are also engaged on persecuting their workers and we want
them removed before they ruin the good image of this government,” Maina said.
Addressing the workers, the state Secretary to the Government, Dr Umar Bindir,
said the governor had travelled to Abuja.
“I will be joining him and will
communicate your message and demands to him.
“I want to assure you that by next
week when the governor returns from the meeting of the Progressives Governors
Forum in Kaduna, the matter will be looked into,” Bindir said.
Belel, Executive
Secretary of the primary healthcare agency told newsmen that the agency was
owing backlog of unpaid salary.
He, however, said the situation arose because
of a shortfall in the monthly allocation to the local government councils, who
are responsible for the payment of the primary health workers’salary.
Effort to
speak with the other two chief executives was not successful as they could not
be found either in their respective offices or houses when pressmen visited. *VANGUARDNGR*
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