The Kogi state government has sacked 9000 of its work force which it considers to be ghost workers following a screening exercise to weed out illegal workers from the 21 local government areas of the state.One of who is the state chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Onuh Edoka.
Mr. Edoka, who serves as head of both the Medical Health Workers Union and the NLC in the state, said he was employed in 1989, and currently serves as a Disease and Surveillance Officer in the state. Speaking on behalf of the state chapter of the NLC, Mr Edoka said the workers union would take to the streets to challenge the government’s actions.
According to NLC these people are not ghost workers. They are living beings and we are ready to bring them out on the streets of Lokoja so that the world can see that they are not ghosts but real workers of Kogi state,” Mr Eboka said.
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