Nigeria To Fire 33,000 Civil Servants
Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer Abuja, Nigeria (AHN) - Nigeria will let go of up to 20 percent of its civil servants by 2007. According to the minister in charge of civil service reform, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, 33,000 Nigerian public servants will be fired, as many of them are "unfit, guilty of serious misconduct or 'ghost workers,' inherited from the years of military rule." Rufai explains to local paper, ThisDay, "Many people had been employed without the proper qualifications after the recruitment of civil servants was decentralized in 1988." "There was no monitoring mechanism such that ministers just went to their villages and packed everybody [to fill the public service]. That was the problem." The cut is an estimated 20 percent of the 160,000 strong public worker labor force, however there may be severance pay, and those who remain will be given raises.
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