We’ll make Kogi workers happy -Bello
Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has said that his administration will do its best to make the state workers happy in the aspect of salary payment amidst competing demands on the income of the state.
Bello who said this yesterday in a broadcast on the occasion of Nigeria’s 57th independence anniversary, assured that his administration was addressing the challenges facing the state’s workforce, and that his government would continue to apply dialogue where it can made a difference in any industrial dispute.
The governor however said that as much as the government remained committed to the public service and pension reforms, “The whims and caprices of vested interests cannot be admitted to determine our responses in any way.”
Explaining the assertion as a response to criticism and highlighting the clock-in initiative of his government as one of the objects of criticism, he said, “Our aim with the clock-in, clock-out devices which labour leaders are rejecting is to empower each worker to leave a digital footprint which authenticates his or her participation during the typical work day. If this aim is defeated, all of the aspirations of genuine and conscientious workers to be assessed based on actual performance will remain a mirage, like in the past.
He congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari, people of the state and entire country on the occasion of the nation’s 57th anniversary, adding that Kogi state must make progress under his watch.