{"id":82389,"date":"2021-06-18T15:59:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=82389"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:59:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:59:04","slug":"el-rufai-sacks-99-political-appointees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/el-rufai-sacks-99-political-appointees\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai sacks 99 political appointees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Governor Nasir El Rufai has said Kaduna state has started implementing its rightsizing policy by disengaging 99 political appointees, but is yet to disengage any state civil servant.<\/p>\n<p>The governor disclosed that only agencies connected to the local government system have disengaged staff and these include the 23 local government councils, SUBEB and the Primary Health Care Board.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai who made the disclosure at a media chat with some Kaduna-based broadcast journalists on Thursday night, explained that the disengaged political appointees constitute 30% of political office holders.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u2018\u2019So far, 99 political appointees have lost their jobs but we have not commenced rightsizing civil servants. We want to be fair with regards to civil servants. We had earlier promised that before we reduce the size of the civil service, we will start with political appointees and we have done that,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor who spoke in Hausa, said that the rightsizing of civil servants will still go on as planned because of dwindling revenues that is accruing to the state government from the federation account.<\/p>\n<p>El Rufai explained that the rightsizing commenced with political appointees because their details are clearly known, making it more straightforward to disengage them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019However, civil servants with question marks on the veracity of their data have to be given a chance to clear the doubts before any action is taken on them,\u2019\u2019 he clarified.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said that his government has employed 11,000 more workers in the health sector, Kaduna State University as well as primary and secondary school teachers across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The governor disclosed that it is a fallacy to allege that the salaries of political appointees account for the bloated personnel cost of Kaduna State Government.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u2018\u2019In March 2021, the salaries of these political appointees amounted to N259 million , while civil servants were paid N3.13 billion, aside from costs related to state contributions to pension, accrued rights and other personnel costs. So, it is false to insinuate that political appointees are the ones that guzzle most of the state\u2019s resources,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Justifying the rightsizing of the public service, he said that all states and the federal government are affected by this shortfall of revenue and some states have even reverted to paying the old monthly minimum wage of N18,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019Kaduna State cannot continue to use 84% to 96% of our revenues to pay salaries of less than 1% of the population. The rest of our people, all 99% of them, need better schools, hospitals, water supply, roads, markets and support for agriculture to make a living outside government,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Nasir El Rufai has said Kaduna state has started implementing its rightsizing policy by disengaging 99 political appointees, but is yet to disengage any state civil servant. 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