Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders has faulted the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Lamido Sanusi’s call for the sacking of 50 per cent of the federal civil servants to reduce the overhead cost of government.
Executive Chairman of the group, Mr. Debo Adeniran, in a statement on Tuesday, described the call as irrelevant and misleading.
Adeniran, who challenged Sanusi to develop policies that would create employment, noted that sacking civil servants would deepen the level of poverty in the country.
He said, “There is surely a need to cut government recurrent expenses to give room for the implementation of the capital side of the national budget, but the question to be asked the CBN governor is: should the common man always be at the receiving end of his many irrelevant policies?
“With the nation’s majority wallowing in abject poverty, living on $1 per day, many unemployed, what should be in the mind of any right-thinking state actor is how to reduce employment. When you push 50 per cent of federal civil servants out, where do you expect them to go? It is a known fact that unemployment is the major contributor to the security challenges bedevilling this nation.”
According to him, the problems facing the country will not
be solved by reducing the federal civil servants but tackling corruption.
“The substantive issue is tackling the endemic corruption
that has percolated every aspect of the government. In essence, corruption must be dealt with in
the circle of Nigerian political office holders and appointees before beaming
the searchlight on the civil service,” he added.
December 5, 2012 by Sodiq Oyeleke
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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