All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau has chided Governor Caleb Muftwang for “reneging on the promises he made during his campaign and inauguration that those employed by his predecessor Barrister Simon Lalong will not be sacked”.
The State Chapter of the APC in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Hon. Slyvanus Namang berated the governor for backpedaling on his promises by suspending all those employed into the state civil service from 1st October 2022 by the immediate past administrations.
According to him, the step taken by the governor contradicted the promise he made during his campaign he was not going to remove any worker employed into the civil service but he was rather going to employ more hands to enhance the capacity of civil servants and reposition it to be one of the best in the country.
“Some of these innocent Plateau unemployed youths whose source of livelihood has been terminated and their future made bleak will be full of regrets as some of them in the wake of all sorts of deception and the outpouring of religious sentiments during the last Gubernatorial election voted for him.
“Parents who also forced their wards to vote for him with great expectation in return would by now be licking their wounds.
“We thought that Governor Mutfwang who said he comes from a humble background should run a government with human face rather than choosing to do things and damn the consequences”.
The State Chapter of APC further averred that all appointments made by the Lalong administration were done in line with due process and extant regulations adding that the heads charged with the conduct of the exercise are men and women of proven integrity and are very patriotic citizens of the state with vast experience and down- to -earth retired bureaucrats in their own right who did what would stand the test of time.
It added that Governor Muftwang should have preoccupied his mind at this early stage is how to find lasting solutions to the security challenges being faced by the state, especially in Mangu his home local government area where the people have been dislodged by armed gangs to be refugees in their own land.
“Most of those displaced in over fifty communities in the local government are farmers who produce most of the food requirements of this state and beyond and have become so agitated and dissolution as the planting season is fast coming to an end.
“Secondly, civil servants are on a strike action which was clearly instigated by the PDP to cause disharmony between the existing government and the workforce.”
It therefore called for the immediate suspension of his decisions especially the suspension of public servants whose source of livelihood has been aborted.
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