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PDP cautions Gov. Ortom against sacking civil servants in the state

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-PDP slams Gov. Ortom of Benue state over plans to sack civil servants in the state.

-The party warned that any plan by the governor to further impoverish the people would be resisted.

PDP warns Ortom not to sack civil servants in the state.

The Benue state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has promised to resist plans by Governor Samuel Ortom to sack thousands of civil servants in the state.

The party submitted that Governor Ortom and his entire administration were trying to unleash untold hardship on the people of the state should it go ahead with its alleged plan to lay off workers.

This position was disclosed by the publicity secretary of the PDP in Benue State, Bemgba Iortyom, while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, yesterday.

“To hide their unprecedented inadequacies, Governor Ortom and his lackeys have been going about heaping all blames for their failure to pay workers their entitlements, on the doorsteps of the revered former governor, Dr. Gabriel Suswam, but the people of Benue know better, as they will not forget the fact that the immediate past administration had taken it upon itself to increase workers salary even before the national minimum wage bill was signed into law by the federal government. These, he did when he increased it from N4,800 to N8,500.”

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“As anyone could easily find out, this salary increase by Suswam was not solicited or demanded by labour or from any quarters. The then governor did so owing to his trademark humane nature, to enhance the wellbeing of workers considering the economic realities of the time.”

“And why are other governors that earn far less than Benue State in statutory allocation, and who have more civil servants not sacking their workers? For us, the whole thing is down to the desperate need to corner as much resources as possible, to prepare for the forthcoming general election in 2019, and it is as unfortunate as it is thoroughly callous.”

“Anything short of this by the Ortom administration would amount to a gross violation of the oath of office it took. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the main opposition party in Benue State, stands with the impoverished workers of the state, and will strongly resist the planned move to sack the workers of the state,” he added.