The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Civil Service Commission has backed down on the sacking of 230 civil servants which it carried out last week Friday.
Information reaching us at Greenbarge Reporters online newspaper said that the April salaries of the affected civil servants have been paid except a few of them that are yet to be paid as at this morning, May 8.
It was learnt that the leadership of the
National Association of Nursing and Midwives of Nigeria (NANMN), the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) and others rose to resist the sack on Monday.
The resident doctors and other medical workers began a three-day warning strike, just when the Civil Service Commission invited their leaders to a series of meetings.
It was learnt that the Commission instantly reversed the sack and began to effect payment of the April salaries to many of the affected civil servants, which it withheld after paying workers last week.
Greenbarge had reported on Monday that 230 civil servants in the services of the FCT, most of who are senior and managerial staff, woke up on Monday to find their names on a long list of those posted on WhatsApp platforms, and were referred to as “ABSCONDMENT” without any explanation. There was no letter of disengagement from service sent to any of the affected civil servants.
Meanwhile, the resident doctors have ended their strike and returned to work today, May 8, even as efforts are said to be making to effect the payment of the salaries of the remaining servants that were not captured in the first batch.
