CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido last Monday called for the sack of 50%
of civil servants in Nigeria because according to him, 'the country spends 70
per cent of its earnings on salaries and entitlements of civil servants.'
“You have to fire half of the civil service because
the revenue of the government is supposed to be for 167 million Nigerians. Any
society where government spends 70 per cent of its revenue on its civil service
has a problem. It is unsustainable,” he said.
Organized Labour, including the Nigeria Labour
Congress, Trade Union Congress, Association of Senior Civil Servants of
Nigeria, the Civil Liberties Organization and Radio, Television, Theatre and
Arts Workers Union, have all condemned his statement, some asking for his
immediate sack.
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