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The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has warned Lagosians not to vote for the Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party next month as a large majority of civil servants can “kiss their jobs good bye
In a statement issued in Lagos by the State Publicity Secretary Mr Joe Igbokwe the Party says “Agbaje would embark on mass sacking just like the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, who sacked over 300 employees of the Ekiti State Traffic Management Authority which is the equivalent of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority.”
” Just as the Fayose administration embarked on the mass sacking of over 800 members of the Peace Corps and other employees of the state, Agbaje would go after employees of all state parastatals.”
“Employees of the Kick Against Indiscipline task force, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, the Lagos State Waste Management Agency and over 60 other agencies would be sent into the labour market if the PDP took over.”
The party recalled that a month after Fayose became governor of the state, he slashed the salaries of Ekiti street sweepers from N10, 000 to N5, 000.
“It would be recalled that the Fayose administration sacked about 800 Peace Corps members and over 300 employees of the Ekiti State Traffic Management Agency (The Ekiti equivalent of LASTMA) shortly after Fayose’s inauguration.
“The Fayose government also slashed the salary of the 700 sweepers employed under the Ministry of Environment (the Ekiti equivalent of LAWMA) from N10, 000 to N5,000
“At a time when the rate of unemployment in the country is high, workers on the payroll of the Lagos State Government cannot risk losing their means of livelihood by voting for a party that is on a revenge mission having been rejected by the people of Lagos in four different elections.”
The Party also urged the civil servants not to forget that while many states and the Federal Government had failed to pay the December salaries, the Lagos State Government did not only pay on time but also added a 15 per cent salary bonus.
