A letter of gratitude to Gov. Ambode
SIR: I want to sincerely thank Governor
Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State for
having started to fulfill some of his
electoral promises, which he made to the
people of the state during his campaign.
Among the electoral promises was his
resolve to end the trend of casualization
in the State’s Civil Service. Recently,
Governor Ambode made good his
promise by regularising the employment
status of the medical doctors who were
engaged some years ago as casuals. Many
doctors who benefitted from this gesture
of the governor have heaved a sigh of
relief having been saved from many
years of tortuous wait during the period
that they were in that pitiable condition.
The ugly effect of their status if they had
remained as casuals would have been
that they would stagnate on the same
position forever without any growth!
These are young and brilliant doctors,
who would have wasted away due to
frustration, and for no fault of theirs.
“ Having known Governor Ambode
to be a thorough-bred technocrat, who
held an enviable position in the State
Civil Service and retired meritoriously
before he went into politics, I am
confident that with his wealth of
experience, he will build a very healthy,
cordial and enviable working
relationship with the state workforce;
the workers in return, will continue to
support his government to enable him
fulfill his electoral promises to the people
of Lagos State
But, I wish to respectfully appeal to him
to go further steps and kindly look into
the plight of many lawyers, most of them
in their prime, who were also engaged as
casual workers many years ago into the
State Civil Service. Some of these lawyers
have spent between five and 10 years
and have stagnated on the same position
that they were engaged! Many of them
are very brilliant with bright career
prospects if they are given the
opportunity to grow in the state
employment.
I also recall that some of them were not
paid their salaries for the period that
they agitated for improvement on their
conditions of service.
• Emeka Damian,
Lagos.
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