Labour Party in Kaduna state has pledged to review the sacking of workers by the present Government if elected come 2023.
The Gubernatorial Candidate of the party, Mr Jonathan Asake made the plea while addressing an interactive with the Political Committee of the NLC Kaduna state council as part of the council’s engagements with gubernatorial candidates of political parties.
He lamented that most of the sacked workers by the Kaduna State Government were dying while waiting for their entitlements without any hope.
The Labour Party Gubernatorial Candidate, who decried the retrenchment of teachers and local government workers by Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s administration “on the pretence of lack of capacity“, said, “The retrenchment of teachers and local government workers that have taken place on the pretence of lack of capacity, instead of retrenching them, there should have been human capital development for them, using Kaduna state resources to develop their capacity and build them up.”
“We are out to give effective leadership to resolve the challenges facing Kaduna state. Kaduna is the epicenter of insecurity which radiates to other states surrounding it like Katsina, Zamfara, Niger, Nasarawa and Plateau states which all suffer insecurity”.
“The first thing to do if we assume office is to tackle insecurity and we believe it would achieve many things. Schools, have closed down, businesses have closed down, investors have taken their capital out of Kaduna, we will address that”.
“We will create job opportunities for our teeming unemployed youths, inclusive economic and infrastructural development, youth and women empowerment are all top on our agenda”.
On the issue of Security, The Gubernatorial Candidate, Mr. Jonathan Asake, described Kaduna state as epicenter of insecurity in the North and promised to address the spate of insecurity.
Apart from security, Asake’s administration will create employment opportunities for the teeming youth, ensure inclusive economic and infrastructural development, as well as youth and women empowerment.
Chairman of Nigerian Labour Congress, Kaduna state council, Comrade Ayuba Magajin Suleiman in a remark said the Party gubernatorial candidate is at home as their party candidate. “He is the candidate of our party, the Labour Party”.
” This is homecoming for him because it’s family affair, but his being here does not stop us from interacting with the candidate of other parties”.
“NLC formed the Political Committee to engage and interact with the five governorship candidates in Kaduna state.
“We want to know what their programmes are, what their plans are and what they have for the people of Kaduna state and the especially the workers.”
Adamu Yusuf