The national leadership of the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, JPSNC, on Friday lamented that a pregnant woman lost her pregnancy at the venue of the ongoing verification exercise of 17,600 public servants on the federal government employ, who were initially tagged “ghost workers” by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation.
Consequently, JPSNC, has called on the Head of Civil Service of the Federation to address this issue with human face to prevent further deaths and disasters of innocent Federal workers. “It is worrisome observing the gory scene depicted by drafting over Seventeen Thousand Six Hundred Federal Public Servants to converge in Abuja for verification after declaring them ghost workers by the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation and stopping their salaries with effect from September 2023. “The serious concern of the National leadership of Joint Public Service Negotiating Council is the process adopted which has no human face and very nauseating.
“The gory scenes are better imagined than experienced, on account that majority of the workers have no resources to cater for habitable place to stay while all of them have turned to refugees.“It is on the aforesaid, that the National leadership of JPSNC is calling on the Head of Civil Service of the Federation to address this issue with human face to prevent further deaths and disasters of innocent Federal workers.
“That, the exercise should be urgently decentralized by holding the exercise at their respective State Capitals to avoid further casualties.