CITY NEWS Punctuality will now be used in Agora of Zuba summons promotion – Kwali boss tells staff security meeting over missing children

The Chairman of Kwali Area Council, Mr. Joseph K. Shazin, has said he will use punctuality of staff to implement their outstanding promotions.

Shazin, expressed displeasure at staff’s poor attitude to work. Speaking at the council conference hall last Thursday, he said, he had observed for a long time that staff were not punctual at work.

“So I really don’t know what you will now suggest to address this issue of lack of punctuality. I think may be the management will leave that to the department head to settle that, but I have made up my mind that we are really going to use punctuality to implement staff promotion,” he said.

The chairman told the council staff how the Paris Club funds were expended, saying a sum of N5.2 million was remitted into the staff multipurpose cooperative group.

He added that N23 million was earmarked for the staff pension arrears of which N20 million was already expended for that purpose.

He also said N1milion was paid to staff as promotion arrears for 2012, adding that the sum of N1.1 million for the affected staff promotion arrears for 2013, were also cleared.

The chairman said the N14 million arrears for medical and health workers of the council for 2010 and 2012 had been paid.

He therefore called on the staff of the council to be dedicated to their duty, saying the only way he would implement their promotion was by their being punctual at work. The Agora of Zuba, Alhaji Muhammad Bello Umar (III), has said he will summon an emergency security meeting to deliberate over incessant cases of missing children in his chiefdom.

The emir, who spoke with our reporter yesterday at his palace , said the security meeting, which would hold today at his palace would comprise of district heads, traditional rulers, representatives of various security agencies, community leaders as well as representative of other ethnic groups in the area.

He said he summoned the security meeting to find a solution to the problem of missing children in the area, which he said, has become a nightmare to not only him but the entire chiefdom.

“It is not only in my chiefdom alone that there have been reported cases of missing children, but here in my chiefdom it has become worst such that there is no week that passes without a report of a child missing,” he said.