RIGHTSIZING: El-Rufai briefs Buhari, to establish Commission of Inquiry
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has disclosed that he has provided a comprehensive briefing to President Muhammadu Buhari on the rightsizing policy of the Kaduna State Government and the steps taken so far to implement it.
The governor said that Kaduna state will seek accountability for the NLC’s actions in the state by setting up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the events of May 2021, explaining that it is hiring over 10,000 staff because rightsizing obliges the government to continuously recruit teachers, doctors, nurses and other qualified staff to provide vital services.
A statement issued by Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Mr Muyiwa Adekeye on Monday , stated the governor assured President Buhari that “KDSG is determined not to allow a repeat of the pains, economic losses and the restraints of freedom that the NLC inflicted on the people of Kaduna State.”
Alluding to the NLC’s renewed threat of strike action, the statement said that the NLC has demonstrated that it does not even believe in equality among its own members, by describing the transfer of one KDSG employee to a place where other civil servants are serving, as victimisation.
Recalling that its representatives made it clear at the 20th My 2021 conciliation meeting that whatever they signed required the approval of the Kaduna State Executive Council, the statement stated that government has since informed the Federal Minister of Labour that the State Executive Council is unable to approve the MoU.
“It is trite that an MoU is not a legally-binding document. The content of the MoU shows that there is no congruence between the progressive aspirations of the Kaduna State Government and the misguided sense of entitlement of the NLC which does not even believe in equality amongst its own members.
