A rights activist and the founder of Civic Education and Health Promotion Initiative, Comrade Olusegun Modeyin, has threatened to sue the Kogi State Government and the state 21 councils if they refused to reinstate over 10,000 sacked local government workers.
Modeyin, who issued the threat while addressing journalists in Lokoja yesterday, said it was unacceptable for the government to wake up in a day and sack over 10,000 workers without following due process.
The activist said the 21 councils flagrantly refused to follow the administrative law which, according to him, stipulates some
disciplinary measures to be taken against any erring public servant before he/she was sacked.
He said: “I find it laughable that the council chairmen, who are the employers, refused to issue any query letter or letter of retrenchment to the affected staff. “All they do was to paste their names on the respective notice boards to disengage them from the councils’ services.
“This is very unfair. The rights of the workers must be respected because the repercussion of the mass sack will resort to increased
level of unemployment and generate social and security problems to the state in specific and the country at large.
