Lagos LG Boss Reverses Retrenchment Of Council Workers

The Executive Secretary, Apapa/Iganmu Local Council Development Area, Mrs Olufunmilayo Mohammed has reversed the decision to retrench some members of staff of the council saying there was no such directive from the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to relieve the affected staff from duty as maliciously reported in some quarters.

According to the Executive Secretary, the decision of the Council to conduct an audit of the staff of the Council was informed by the discovery that out of the 500 temporary staff on the payroll of the Council, only about 125 were available during an audit exercise which lasted for two weeks.

She said the audit was conducted to actually verify the number of staff and also to uncover ghost workers (if any) who are on the payroll of the Council.

“We have more than 500 temporary workers and I have not been seeing them at work and we gave them two weeks to do an auditing of the temporary staff. We gave them two weeks to come. The first day, they did not come and we postponed it and the final day, it is only 75 percent of the people that responded and we gave the few people who did not respond letters, that they should bring proofs of their letters of employment which they could not bring”, she said.