PDP lambasts Gov El-Rufai over teachers strike, insecurity in Kaduna

Kaduna State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday lambasted Governor Nasir El-Rufai over his threat to sack striking teachers.

The party, added that the governor’s “ineptitude” and lack of capacity to curb the insecurity challenge bedeviling the state, is a course for worry.

The PDP state chairman, Mr. Felix Hyat, stated this in a statement he made available to newsmen, where he declared his party’s support for the ongoing teachers’ indefinite strike in Kaduna State.

According to Hyat, it was wrong of El-Rufai to threaten to sack the teachers for embarking on strike, which he said was “a legal means for all civil servants to seek redress on the injustice presently meted out on them.”

Hyat described the sack of some teachers by Governor El-Rufai as “callous”, “insensitive” and a development that will end up increasing the level of unemployment and poverty in the state.

He said, “The incessant sack of civil servants in the state, if allowed to continue unabated, would definitely lead to high rate of crime, social vices and would dampen the morale of civil servants in the state.”

Hyat, who decried the provision of N1 billion in the state 2018 budget for the construction of new legislative quarters after the ones on ground were sold off by the state government, said, “We condemned this act in its entirety, for it is another ploy to fleece the resources of the people of our state of their collective commonwealth.”

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Bemoaning security situation in Kaduna State, Hyat said el-Rufai had demonstrated “ineptitude and lack of capacity to curb the insecurity challenge bedeviling the state.”

He assured sacked civil servants in the state whom he said were sacked “unjustly” by El-Rufai’s All Progressives Congress (APC) government, that they would be reinstated should PDP be elected in 2019.

 

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