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Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs; Ahmed Ibrahim
Minister directs headcount in MMDAs
The Minister of Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ahmed Ibrahim, has announced a nationwide headcount of all staff at the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs).
Mr Ibrahim said the headcount was meant to ensure that all staff in the 261 MMDAs were at post and working for the development of the country.
He said it was worrying that although about 40,000 staff were said to have been posted to the MMDAs through the Office of the Head of Local Government Service (OHLGS), most of them were ghost workers.
“I have not gone around the MMDAs yet, but the briefing I have from the handover notes shows that there are about 40,000 workers in the OHLGS distributed among 261 MMDAs.
If you divide that number by the 261 MMDAs, every assembly will have over 150 staff; but when you go there, you will see only 20 or 30 people at work while the rest are nowhere to be found.
“People take it that they are on payroll but they do not want to work. We have to do a headcount so that the few who are working diligently will be seen and rewarded as expected, then those who do not go to work will be seen and the necessary action taken,” he stressed.
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