The Federal Government in a plan to commence the process of merging some Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) will through that process scrap others and send thousands of Public Service employees into the oversaturated Labour market. But Organised Labour under the aegis of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has flayed that decision.
The Secretary-General, ASCSN, Comrade Alade Bashir, in a statement issued in Lagos, expressed shock that the Federal Government chose this time when the whole world including Nigeria was mourning the death of thousands of people being killed daily by Coronavirus to implement Steve Oronsaye Report. This report recommended the merging of some MDAs and the scrapping of others.
According to the ASCSN, the impression created before the public since this news broke out, is that the Government has no empathy and is insensitive to the suffering of millions of Nigerians.
It added that Nigeria was already rated the poorest country in the world and if Government carried out its plan to throw thousands of workers to the streets at this material time, it would lead to monumental social crisis the end result of which no one could predict.