Governor Seyi Makinde has insisted his administration will maintain a continued state civil service welfare irrespective of any situation.
Makinde stated this at an Inter-faith service held at the State’s Chapel Open Ground, Secretariat Agodi Ibadan on Monday which featured spiritual presentations from the three major religions in Nigeria, traditional, Christianity and Islam respectively.
The governor boasted to have succeeded in maintaining fairness ,equity and justice leading to employment of 5,000 teachers, recruitment of health officials, reinstatement of wrongly dismissed workers as satisfactorily met the standard; though improved payment of wage bill from previously 4.8billion naira to 7.2billion naira all at ensuring better treatment of the state workers.
” We have listened to deductions on workers’ salary as presented by the labour leaders in
Oyo State
” Let me state here that this administration will continue on equity, fairness and justice as this has enabled our efforts in recruiting 5,000 teachers, recruitment of health officials and reinstatement of wrongly dismissed workers as satisfactorily met the standards”, Makinde said.
Governor Seyi Makinde concluded that his administration will address two of the five outstanding deductions on the state workers’ salary within some days.
” With the deductions read to us by the labour leaders, I want to state here that two out of the five outstanding deductions will be addressed within days”, Makinde added.
Meanwhile, the present head of service,Alhaja Ololade Agboola while bidding farewell to the state workers, having served over thirty- four years called on the state civil and public servants to co-operate with her successor for a resounding progress in the Oyo state.
“We need to appreciate the state governor,Engr. Seyi Makinde as through his first tenure, no account of sack; no retrenching of workers rather increasing staff” , she said.
” I will from now onward inform the workers in Oyo state that, today ,I will be presenting my last speech as the head of service having spent over 34 and a half ago”
” I will call my worker- members to be far for disloyalty; this is time for dedication, commitment instead
” Let there be co-operation for whomever succeeds me as the next Head of service as to promote sustainable development in our dear state”, she concluded.
