The celebrated pardon allegedly granted to some uncleared workers in Kogi State civil service for various infractions and omissions is an implicit admission that the nearly fifteen months screening exercise was a fiasco, a wild goose chase and a demonstration of lack of direction and purposeful leadership in Kogi state.
Yahaya Bello is not magnanimous! Yahaya Bello is tactless by agreeing to be coerced into the screening in the first place only to turn around when a safe landing without goring no less than 35 thousand genuine workers became impossible.
Do you know why Yahaya Bello failed? I will tell you.
One of the eleven seemingly terrible infractions and omissions allegedly forgiven affects all the workers said to be affected. Therefore, if you were not screened out by infraction number one, you will be hard hit by infraction numbers 5 and eleven and vice versa.
To be successful at wiping off the trauma and blemish tainting the image and integrity of the New Direction government, the government should not only pay arrears of the fifteen months owed to the workers allegedly “forgiven”, he should also account for where the money meant for the affected workers have been diverted to since the treasury of Kogi is empty.
– Omachi Isaac Achor