The Kaduna State Government has dismissed claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that it disengaged more than 36,000 workers without commensurate employment for others. Nasiru El-Rufai dismissed the claim in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Kaduna. The government spokesman stressed that the administration was sanitising the civil service and injecting new blood as part of the reform process to make the service responsive, efficient and sustainable. “This means that the local councils cannot perform their primary functions of providing infrastructure, healthcare services and others responsibilities at the grassroots. “Some of the local council workers were also discovered to be collecting salaries elsewhere, either as state or federal civil servants.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2018 10:52 UTC