The government had last week directed that banks should stop the mass sack of workers until July 2.
According to Independent Newspaper, the Federal Government has ordered massive retrenchment and retirements in all paramilitary agencies under the Ministry of Interior.
The directive was said to have come from the Minister of Interior, Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazzau (rtd), through a circular dated May 25, 2016 and addressed to all chiefs of services under the Interior Ministry namely Immigration, Prisons, Fire and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
The directive is coming barely few days after the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration urged commercial banks operating in the country to halt ongoing mass sack of workers.
It was gathered that the directive, if followed through, will lead to the loss of jobs of 50 per cent of the current workforce and worsen the already bloated unemployment market.
An insider source at the Ministry of Interior revealed that the directive is sequel to earlier decision in December, last year, by the Joint Services Board (JSB), where it was resolved to “expand” the “parameters for retirement of officers and men” in the employment of agencies under the supervision of the board.
Recall that President Buhari during his national broadcast on May 29 had hinted of plans to sack a good number of workers in the federal civil service.
The president also disclosed that some 43,000 ghost workers had been discovered and weeded out from the civil service, leading to a saving of a whopping N4.2 billion monthly from the federal wage bill.
He had hinted that the plan to reduce the job lines in the federal ministries, departments and agencies had begun.
But some staff of the agencies have raised the alarm that the directive is a wholesale importation of military rule and scheme of service into the paramilitary services.
They cried against the “hypocrisy” on the part of government which recently appealed to banks in the country to stop sustained sack of workers, arguing that some of the current administration’s policies are not well thought out.
They are of the view that the directive is instigated by the minister, a retired general. Accordingly, they insist that a full implementation of the directive cannot work unless an amendment of relevant Acts that set up the agencies are carried out by the National Assembly.
“We are paramilitary agencies and our rules are different. Even if what the minister is doing follows due process, is the proposal coming through the appropriate channels which include the Civil Service Commission, Head of Service, Establishment, Amending the Act through a Bill to the NASS etc”, queried a director in the ministry.
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