Date: 2019-06-06

The Chairman of Labour Party in Kwara State, Mumini Onagun, has appealed to the state governor, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, not to contemplate retrenchment of workers in the state.

The appeal followed a directive from the state governor that workers employed by the immediate past administration between November 2018 and May 2019 should not be paid their May salaries.

Onagun spoke on Monday evening in Ilorin, the state capital, on the sidelines of the annual Ramadan lecture of the Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists held in honour of Hamdalat Aremu, the late wife of the former governorship candidate of Labour Party in the state, Issa.

He urged the governor to jettison any plan to sack those employed in the state civil service within the last two or three months prior to his coming to power.

He noted that the beneficiaries of the job were Kwarans and should be left in the service to continue to enjoy their monthly salaries like other workers.

Onagun stated that the labour movement did not believe in retrenchment of workers.

He restated the commitment of his party to partner the state government towards addressing the problems facing the state.