…We can’t be working 70 percent and expect to be paid a 110 percent
Governor Chukwuma Soludo has told civil servants in Anambra that the every Monday sit at home has become a convenient excuse.
ANN reports that the Governor made the disclosure at the 2023 Workers’ Day Celebration, held at Dr. Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka.
In his words ” We must get back our state to work. Because to whom much is given, much is expected. As this union work for the state, we must get back to work five days in a week.
“Our government remains focused. We are determined to deliver our agenda and all of you are critical partners. It requires reciprocity. You give value to the State and the state in turn will give value to you. I know that many of you are working very hard. Some of you go to offices every Monday, but we must keep our offices fully open.
“We can’t be working seventy percent and expect to be paid a hundred and ten percent. It is not the new Anambra we intend to bequeath to the enext generation.
” I thank you all who are working in Anambra, for uniting to work, the continuing partnership with the organized labour in Anambra. The public servants, civil servants and those in various agencies and parastatals, you have been very great, your work is visible.
“My idea of unionism is the solidarity of all workers in Anambra, whether the keke rider, or the woman selling one thing or the other somewhere under the sun; is working and contributing. It is the union of all of us that will make Anambra State stronger, prosperous and liveable. I’m not talking about comradeship and agitation. I’m talking about “the union will make Anambra State strong”. I want us to always keep our eyes on the big picture.
“Everywhere it is labour, despite the fourth industrial revolution and the fact that digitization and robotics will become major threats to human labour in decades to come, but we will continue to celebrate the human labour.
“And for me, my commitment to the welfare of workers is not something I advertise. I live through it, I empathize, I sympathize. Anything that we don’t do for the workers, it means it is not financially feasible. If it is feasible, we will do it.
