With only 58000 workers, including youth Corp members and casual workers, the Jigawa State civil service may collapse in the next three years.
This fear is expressed by a group called Jigawa State Concerned Citizens of Nigeria at a news conference in Dutse.
The leader of the group, Hajiya Furera Abdullahi Baffa, said the population of pensioners in the state is higher than that its workforce. She did not mention the population of the pensioners.
Furera said majority of the sensitive offices in the State Secretariat are managed by coppers and casual staff due to the shortage of manpower bedevilling the state civil service.
She lamented that alot of the experianced staff who workers inherited from the old Kano State (from which Jigawa was created) have retired from service, which drastically reduced the state’s workforce, leading to the locking of many offices due to the non availability of human resources to occupy them.
Furera lamented further that the rapid retirement of the state’s civil servants has doubled the number of pensioners which, she observed, may cause the collapse of the state’s contributary pension scheme due to the rapid depletion if the workers to contribute to the scheme.
She, therefore, appealed to the Jigawa State government to lift the embago on employment of civil servants to beef up the civil service for optimum performance.
