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According to ex Presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, Nigeria's state governments need to start sacking workers.
"Virtually ALL state governments in the country have an over bloated civil service. At some point between 2008 and 2009, Ogun state received N2b monthly from the federation account and paid out N1.8b as staff salaries, wages and overhead costs!!!! The total staff strength was about 50,000 while the population was about 5,000,000," he said in an opinion piece he posted on social media.
"An obvious socio economic absurdity and incongruity therefore existed where 10% of the population was consuming 90% of the wealth of the state. We Dont need a sooth sayer or economic guru to foretell that this is unsustainable. In many States the percentage of the resources of the state that is consumed by the civil service ranges between 70% to 80% by not more than 10% of its population.
"A basic economic dictum says " if expenditure cannot be controlled then internal demands must be curtailed" Without doubt therefore, all state governments must immediately start the process of down sizing with reasonable cushions for those who will be affected.
"An immediate 20-30% cut down in staff strength is imperative, with provision of say, upfront payment of 3years salaries for affected members of staff. If this is what the federal government will give as loans or bail outs to the States to be repaid over 10years, it will make a better a economic sense than what has been done to date. This action will ensure that the states do not keep coming back as a recurring decimal.
He suggested that the downsizing should be continued at an annual rate of about 10% for about 5years.
"This will also create space for a controlled employment of new youthful and better trained civil servants," he said.
READ: President Buhari Needs to Stop Behaving Like Father Xmas- Doyin Okupe
"Virtually ALL state governments in the country have an over bloated civil service. At some point between 2008 and 2009, Ogun state received N2b monthly from the federation account and paid out N1.8b as staff salaries, wages and overhead costs!!!! The total staff strength was about 50,000 while the population was about 5,000,000," he said in an opinion piece he posted on social media.
"An obvious socio economic absurdity and incongruity therefore existed where 10% of the population was consuming 90% of the wealth of the state. We Dont need a sooth sayer or economic guru to foretell that this is unsustainable. In many States the percentage of the resources of the state that is consumed by the civil service ranges between 70% to 80% by not more than 10% of its population.
"A basic economic dictum says " if expenditure cannot be controlled then internal demands must be curtailed" Without doubt therefore, all state governments must immediately start the process of down sizing with reasonable cushions for those who will be affected.
"An immediate 20-30% cut down in staff strength is imperative, with provision of say, upfront payment of 3years salaries for affected members of staff. If this is what the federal government will give as loans or bail outs to the States to be repaid over 10years, it will make a better a economic sense than what has been done to date. This action will ensure that the states do not keep coming back as a recurring decimal.
He suggested that the downsizing should be continued at an annual rate of about 10% for about 5years.
"This will also create space for a controlled employment of new youthful and better trained civil servants," he said.
READ: President Buhari Needs to Stop Behaving Like Father Xmas- Doyin Okupe
