03/05/2024
Happy Workers Day Great Benue Workers!
It is with great delight that I join you the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC), as well as all workers across Benue, to mark this year’s May Day celebrations.
2. I find it very significant because this is my first outing in this forum as your governor. And I am glad to join in the celebration of all our heroesin the civil service and even the private sector, both serving, retired and deceased.
3. Workers all over the world are unarguably the bedrock of productivity which culminates intonational development. Without the workforce, governments, institutions and society in its entirety,cannot function.
4. It is in view of this fact that, since the inception of my Administration, we deliberately engendered the prioritization of workers’ welfare, growth, and an enabling environment to thrive.
5. This is evident in the prompt and regular payment of workers’ salaries, as well as pensions/gratuities to our retirees. We have also begun the payment of arears dubiously and callously owed workers by the immediate past Administration.
6. Every worker deserves his/her wages; and I consider it a crime not to pay employees their due emoluments.
7. More so, the policy of regular promotion of workers as at when due, is now a mainstay of our Administration. The days of stagnation of workers in the State civil service are gone! This has not only boosted the morale of the workforce, but has also triggered productivity.
8. Furthermore, our government is already creating an enabling atmosphere for job creationand security, both within the civil service and the private sector. Employment into the civil service so far, has been strictly based on merit, and so shall it continue to be.
9. Let me inform that we are ready for the disbursement of grants/loans to individuals and groups willing to return to the farms for various kinds of agricultural activities capable of enhancing self-reliance, per capita income,
