Oyo State Governor Abiola, Ajimobi has explained why the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government ruled out retrenching workers despite the situation of the economy.
Ajimobi, who spoke at the APC national secretariat in Abuja, said “In other clime, you should adjust your income and adjust your labour force.”
“If you cannot pay everybody, then you should reduce them or you should reduce salaries. But because we are a government that believes in generating and creating employment, we refuse to do the most appropriate thing to do.
“So, we now decide that, instead of retrenching, we should restructure”.
The governor added that his state could not meet up with its monthly wage bill of about N5.2 billion when its total income from the federal allocation stood at about N2.2billion.
On corruption, Ajimobi said the menace “is more than just taking money. It is attitudinal.
“Sometimes, you can even enlarge it to mean basically indiscipline, inability to control yourself, to discipline yourself against the selfish tendencies of wanting to take what does not belong to you.
“A decision not to do your job is corruption, taking salaries monthly and not coming to work and coming to work and being idle is corruption”.
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