By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi State Correspondent)
Most of the civil servants in both federal, state and local government areas have not resumed work fully in their respective offices in Bauchi State.
NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Newspaper Correspondent who took time to visit the various Sectariates, found that the turn out of the staff workers in the state was very low. Only few staffs reported to work on Monday and Tuesday, July 3rd and 4th, 2023.
Some of the worker's interviewed by NEWSLEADER and who spoke under anonymous conditions, said the reason behind the low turn out was as a result of the fuel subsidy removal and economic hardship being experienced in the state and in the country at large.
Ibrahim Sani, a staff of Bauchi state government at Abubakar Umar Secretariat, said the situation is becoming worrisome because majority of the worker's are finding it very difficult to pay too much (to and fro) from office and back to their respective planes of abode due to high cost of fuel as well as the transportation fees.
Corroborating, a staff of the Ministry of Works at the federal secretariat whose name is withheld, said that most worker's nowadays prepare to come two to three times a week due to high cost of fuel and transportation fees.
According to him, "I pay almost one thousand (N1,000) to and fro from my house to the office every day since the announcement of the subsidy removal by President Bola Tinubu".
Similarly, at the Bauchi local government secretariat, the situation is the same despite that most of the worker's are indigenes of the state as well as living within the metropolis.
One of the local government staff, Malam Baba Ahmed, said the reason why majority of the staff didn't show up for work on Monday and Tuesday is that majority of the people were completely broke because they've spent all their money during the Sallah celebrations.
NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Correspondent reports that even patronage by customers at bank premises was also very low as few customers were found in some of the banks visited while some had empty banking halls. NNL.
