Kaduna State Govt dismisses claims of Disengaging Workers

The Kaduna State Government has dismissed claims that it has disengaged more than 36,000 _workers without commensurate employment for others.

Mr Saidu Adamu, the Counsellor on Information and Communication to Governor Nasiru EI-Rufai, dismissed the claim in Kaduna, insisting the claims was baseless as the state government has embarked on “massive employment ever seen in the history of the state since independence.”

Mr Adamu said teachers sacked by the Kaduna government had “no business in the classroom”

The government spokesman stressed that the administration was sanitising the civil service and injecting new blood as part of the reform process to make the service responsive, efficient and sustainable.

He recalled that government had spent over N600m in the last two years in training and retraining them yet have failed to meet Up.

He said that the exercise is to also block wastage in the system adding that all those retired would be paid their dues promptly.